Everything brings us back to the body, says Achille Mbembe in his 2020 essay “The universal right to breathe”, written as a response to the first covid lockdowns. The same year Ehsan Hemat started the preliminary research for this work which explores the physical possibilities in relation to an 18-kilo brass sheet and uses the poetry of Rumi and Gaia theory as departure points to play with reflection and echo. The resulting performance is a duet between the human and non-human as equal partners, a dialogue between the body and the core of the earth, using movement, sound and voice, and honouring the violent histories behind the beautiful imagery – histories of exploitation, ecological degradation, and a denied right to breathe.