In New York, 2020, during the lockdown, I experienced a kind of vertigo and sought my bearings by observing the lunar cycles. At night I watched the moonrise through my front window and its slow progression across the sky. The moon became a focus of my meditations and I thereby joined every person throughout millennia who had contemplated and been inspired by the moon. The moon guided me back into balance.

In Japanese Kaizen, Moon Breath (Chandra Bhedana in Sanskrit), is a form of Single Nostril Pranayama promoting calm and sleep: block your right nostril with your right thumb, inhale through the left nostril, then block your left nostril with your left thumb and exhale through the right nostril, repeat.

The drawing's scale is also relevant. The moon's two halves are relatively proportional to the size of inflated lungs, and the drawing is slightly less wide than a person standing in front of it with outstretched arms.