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I Can Hold My Breath Longer Than 5 Seconds 5 Artwork(s)

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Line drawing depicting a woman wearing traditional clothing walks behind a bird on a leach while another bird flys just behind the women on the right side of the page. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using black

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Line drawing depicting a woman wearing traditional clothing walks behind a bird on a leach while another bird flys just behind the women on the right side of the page. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using black
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Landscape depicting a campsite set up between large rocky mountains and a shoreline where a small human figure builds a boat and his family watches from their tent. Presented in a flattened vertical perspective style and using blue
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Imaginary landscape that contains two hunters hunting four narwhales near the shoreline with five inuksuit visible on top of the hills in the background. Design presented in a flattened vertical perspective style and using orange
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Scene depicting a group of five birds floating on water in the foreground
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Imaginary scene depicting two humans with long noses

The average time a person engages with a piece of artwork is 5 seconds. And then it’s on to the next one. 5 seconds. 5 seconds. 5 seconds.

The artwork chosen for I Can Hold My Breath Longer Than 5 Seconds opens space for the viewer to slow down, look deeper and connect to the stories
held within each of the works. If you can hold your breath longer than 5 seconds….you can look at art for longer too.