Geometry of Breath

Michael schultheis

I am scared of breathing.  This year, I became fearful of inhaling, and guilty when exhaling.  My new work explores how we can easily visualize and map our breathing, and learn to play with our own breath and the breath of another person.  

Titled Geometry of Breath, this is my exploration of how to breath freely again.  I investigate how the symmetry and proportions that Vitruvius applied to architecture, and that da Vinci considered with the exterior human body, also apply to our breath – as well as our consciousness.  My geometric models are based on the geometry of a unit circle, polar curves and the roulettes of epicycloids.  This work is on paper, acrylic on canvas, NFTs, and bronze.   In addition, I invite everyone – especially artists – to share new ways to breathe freely again.   

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