AVERY LAKE

AN ONGOING INQUIRY

Accounts
of Being

What remains lived,
when everything can become a record?

Breath, presence, embodiment, relationship and meaning. Five chapters exploring what our technologies can hold, and what exceeds their accounts.

Enter Breath

The chapters

An inquiry in progress.

01BreathOne breath, and what its account can hold.Explore
02PresenceBeing here, and leaving a trace.In development
03EmbodimentA body, and the data that describes it.In development
04RelationshipWhat passes between us.In development
05MeaningWhat a record can say, and what we make of it.In development
Artist statement

We live through our tools. Handwriting, print, images and code each record something of an experience while flattening it in a different way.

In Accounts of Being, I follow lived moments through these forms. I am looking for what the Intelligence Age cannot fully capture: what it feels like to breathe, to be present, to inhabit a body, to relate, to find meaning.

An ongoing inquiry

Breath is the first available chapter. Presence, Embodiment, Relationship and Meaning remain in development, without announced release dates.

Answering Circles; or, Networked Circles explored how participation becomes composition. A Breath Given asks how giving might shape it.