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Prologue
When Nicolaus Copernicus once stated, “It is the Earth that moves,” the human worldview was fundamentally overturned. A transformation of that same magnitude is happening now within the domain of our very “existence.”
Modern civilization has placed intangible theory at the center of the world (the Sun) and treated the physical body as a mere satellite orbiting around it. The outcomes brought about by this “Theoretical Geocentrism” are catastrophic: political corruption, addiction, endless warfare, and so forth. I suspect that at the depths of these issues lies a “collective respiratory failure” so severe that our very cells are crying out in distress.
Over an unimaginably long period, has the theft of breath by theory not been justified under the names of justice and efficiency? As a painter, and as a human being characterized by sensory hypersensitivity and synesthesia, I pose a single question at the very heart of the world’s philosophy and science:
“What if the center of theory and matter was our breath?“
In this inquiry, even Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” may be overturned, potentially allowing for the scientific redefinition of the human vision of life and death through the lens of breath.
In Part I, this paper dissects how theory has inflicted violence upon the body (Heliocentrism in Art). In Part II, it declares a new form of civilization that places breath at the Zero-Point (0) (The Breathing Declaration).
This is a record of the struggle to reclaim the lost “right to survival,” and a manifesto declaring the revival of the “Breathing Civilization”―which had been forced into an underground water vein―now returning to its Zero-Point.