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Drawing by Jill O'Bryan, The Shape of the Sound of Breath (graphite and oil stick on Bhutan Mitsumata rice paper, 16 x 32", 2019). The image illustrates a key body of work in Jill O'Bryan's career in the 2000s, when she produced "Breath Drawings" that recorded each of her breaths with an individual graphite mark thousands of times, produced over days, weeks, months or years. The image depicts a later breath drawing, from her series, "The Shape of the Sound of Breath." O'Bryan's "Breath Drawings" were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Jill O'Bryan. Copyright held by the artist.

Jill O'Bryan

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work throughout Jill O'Bryan's career beginning in 2000: her "Breath Drawings," in which she recorded each of her breaths with an individual graphite mark thousands of times. These works were made during meditations that lasted several hours and took place over days, weeks, months or years, depending on the size and scope of the drawing. The marks varied in form across different drawings, and were made either next to one another or on top of one another. Critics described them as durational records that were intimate visual and tactile archives of universal experiences, of embodiment and interdependence on the environment, transferred to paper. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key part of her oeuvre, which brought O'Bryan recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. O'Bryan's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Jill O'Bryan, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.