This work is inspired by the volume by Eugen Herrigel, Zen and the art of Archery. 
Learning to photograph is not the work of the lens, but it is the work of the mind that uses it. 
And so is the archery as the book is about. 
"It is not the arm that stretches the rope and aims the target, it is the breathing and the soul that guide you," says Herrigel. 
The phrase I found emblematic of Herrigel's entire oeuvre was: 
"I learned to lose myself in breathing with such abandon that sometimes I had the feeling that I wasn't breathing but - strange as it may sound - that I was being breathed". 
It consists of a still life shot, paradoxically the technique of something inanimate, although my shot expresses breathing for me, an absolute act of life. The marble cube represents the material body, what occupies a certain space, what is by its nature capable of carrying out actions that cause physical consequences. Despite its heaviness and ability to provoke actions, it is still, lifted by tran