Bone Breath is a three-part video animation installation that forms part of The Absence of Alice series. The work is built around digital scans of an original, bone-like sculptural form, symbolising the bone cancer origins of the Saos-2 cell line derived from an 11-year-old girl named Alice.

Accompanied by the rhythmic sound of a young girl’s breath, the animation depicts the sculptural forms continuously mutating, shifting from one shape to another with each inhale and exhale. This cyclical transformation echoes the dynamic nature of the living cells, emphasising their constant state of change and their intrinsic link to Alice. The piece evokes a poignant meditation on life, absence, and the unsettling vitality of the cells, which persist and evolve beyond the original body they came from.

Bone Breath is featured in the Leonardo Laser talk Sonophagia – Eating Sound with Die Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna in November 2014.