This print by Michael Joo expresses various aspects of the process the artist engaged in to create a body of molded blown glass bags for his Single Breath Transfer series. Starting with found plastic and paper bags that he filled with a single breath, Joo made molds of the inflated bags, and then created the blown-glass sculptures from those molds. On this print, we see the glass sculpture superimposed over digital scans of lungs during exhalation, along with a histogram, or graphical display of data, mapping the transfer of breath. Like much of Joo’s work, the series examines methods of transmission and representation, and areas of meaning embedded within materials and processes.

The work is displayed behind plexiglass with L-nails. Once framed, the work can hang from a wire or D-rings.