Respire Timepiece Ideation

One breath at a time...

I'm thinking about how to make a timepiece.  Something that's connected to breath and movement, time and rhythm.  Some kind of beautiful, nostalgic oddity that could sit comfortably in a cabinet des curiosites.   During this ideation process, I keep returning to the lung as a literal symbol of breathing and the images of lungs that seem so delicate and enduring all at once, like intricate root systems or dried coral.  I'd like to preserve this quality of fragility and strength in the timepieces I design, using parishable materials like wax, plants, glass and paper.  I'm thinking the scale of each timepiece will be rather small-- but placed together in a shadow box of some sort.  Time keeping will translate through objects like the hourglass, sundial, thaumatrope, terrarium and candle.