In 2019, I spent 8 days sailing the South Australian coastline from Adelaide to Port Lincoln on a 38 foot cruising sailing vessel. Out of Breath is strongly influenced by this embodied sailing experience. On a physical level, it aims to re-present the scale of a confused sea state / looking at the wave height and fetch experienced on this voyage. However, more specifically, the installation aims to place the spectator in the centre of oceanic phenomena - to shift away from their stable viewing position by being on the ‘wrong’ side of the threshold of ‘air’ and ‘water’. By venturing beyond our natural means, and finding ourselves submersed and out of air, when is it that we realise the power of this life-force and our inferiority in the face of oceanic immensity?