We are Atmosphere

We Are Atmosphere explores the idea that the world is atmospheric and we are atmospheric beings—something that is both a material fact of life on this planet and a new, strange awareness ushered in by climate change. The atmosphere is at once the thick layer of gas that surrounds the planet and makes life possible, everything that is beyond and between us as beings, and something entering and leaving our bodies with each breath. It is also a place so profoundly altered by our carbon-fuelled civilization that liveability as we know it is at risk. This series of work explores living inside this realm of unbounded exchange, where actions cannot be contained but are instead drifting and ever-accumulating. Using coloured clouds, the works explore the endless mixing of the atmosphere, showing how the atmosphere puts us in relation with all things.