Taking a Breath brings together responses from patients, family members, staff and AI, shaped around one shared question:

"What does taking a breath mean to you?"

For most of us, breathing is ordinary and unnoticed. For people living with pulmonary fibrosis and other respiratory conditions, breath becomes sharply present, measured, protected, worked for and shared. It can carry effort and fear, but also recovery and hope, as each person navigates breath in their everyday life.

The responses gathered here offer different ways of thinking about breath from those closely connected to respiratory care. Together, they create a conversation with John Goto’s artworks, shaped by lived experience, clinical practice and the technologies increasingly present in healthcare.

Visitors are invited to move through three parts of the response: recorded staff reflections, a canvas created by members of the pulmonary fibrosis support group, and an AI-generated reflection on breath.