Atmen is a visual exploration of intimate resistance, where the female body becomes both landscape and metaphor for the earth: arid, fertile, vulnerable, and powerful. Through the cyclical rhythm of breathing, the work evokes the constant pulse between life and death, between decay and regeneration.

The act of breathing—deep, conscious, relentless—transforms into a ritual of survival. Germination emerges not as a miracle, but as a biological readiness, an organic insistence in the face of drought. The artist does not depict the body as an object, but as territory: a ground that, even in its fragility, sustains and nourishes the possibility of rebirth—without the dramatization of vulnerability, only a fierce stillness.

To breathe is the first and last act of autonomy, a reminder that as long as there is breath, there will be germination. It is a gaze turned inward, a connection with the essential, and a trust in life’s ability to push through, always.

How to germinate in barren land?
Atmen, because when dry earth cries for rain, it germinates.
Atmen.
Again and again, you are born and you die.
Atmen.