In The Space Between, balloons were installed around trees that were either dead, marked as decayed, or stripped bare. The installations were a gesture of renewal. An effort to breathe life into what has been overlooked or forgotten. The work inhabits the liminal space between life and death, absence and presence, stillness and vitality. This work was informed by my twenty years as a nurse. Caring for patients on ventilators taught me to see breath as both mechanical and profoundly human. The rhythm of assisted breathing, fragile yet essential, resonates in these installations, where balloons become symbolic lungs, infusing quiet spaces with the possibility of renewal. This work is meant to explore the delicate balance of care, fragility, and transformation.

The Space Between is a meditation on resilience and the enduring impulse to nurture life, to restore breath to the world around us, even in places that seem still.

These images are facemounted to plexiglass.