By 2011 I'd gotten pretty good at harnessing condensation as an art medium. (Check out The Art of Condensation I and The Art of Condensation II for more background.) But I'd realized that what interested me about it in the first place wasn't very accessible to people looking at my work.

The point of the work to me, in the most clichéd terms possible, is the sense of wonder at seeing the images appear from nothing but humid air. Static photographs miss this entirely. Works that I fog up and then put on passive display are hardly better. So I started thinking about how to make the art more interactive.

Thus came the "Blow" series - works allowing the observer to create and destroy images formed of the moisture from their own breath.

The piece of glass containing the hidden image is mounted a small distance above a plastic backing. Blowing gently into the narrow space behind the glass reveals the image. Blowing briskly into the space evaporates the condensation, erasing the image again.

The video at right demonstrates the process for two of these pieces.

Unfortunately I cannot post the works themselves to the Web for you to interact with. But you can visit Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 to see photographs of them.