Prana is a project born between the dense urban sprawl of London and the ancient stillness of the New Forest. It emerges from a moment in history when the act of breathing—once unconscious and essential—became fraught with risk. When touch turned into threat, and human connection retreated into isolation. We were left to confront ourselves, locked in domestic cocoons, watching the world from behind glass and screens. “Prana,” a Sanskrit word meaning life force or vital breath, echoes across cultures—the Chinese chi, the Greek pneuma, the Roman anima, the Christian Holy Spirit. It is the invisible current that connects breath to being, body to spirit. This work searches for that current—not in the artificial rhythms of city life, but in the quiet intelligence of trees, soil, and wind. As society paused, the forest offered another way of existing. Without masks or boundaries, trees became companions. Their rooted stillness felt honest, their presence safe. The body, denied human touch, sought solace in bark, in moss, in the slow inhale of wild air. In nature, life felt possible again. Prana reimagines survival not through resistance, but through surrender. Through images and gestures, it traces a return—not to normal, but to something more essential. A merging. Man becomes tree. The boundary blurs. And in that transformation, a new kind of breath begins.