Byxbee Park: Breathing Apparatus

Byxbee's lungs are situated immediately underneath this metal lid-—at least the breathing emanates from here.

A few years ago, you had to listen carefully for the long-drawn-out, despondent sigh it cast upon the air every two minutes or so. On a more recent visit in 2005, the garbage breathed almost in synch with myself, a little stertorously perhaps, as if suffering from some minor pulmonary obstruction. Maybe it’s hard on the lungs out here.

Photo by Marijke Rijsberman, 2005

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