‘earth and air’ animates interplay between ground and air. The rectangle of clay is cracked so that air visibly breaks its surface; the folded silk image is a digital reproduction of Manet’s painting 'The Swallows' in which two women sit on the ground whilst swallows dart through the air. Here the folds in the cloth transfer the flat painting into a sculptural form and hide the overall scene, so that only brush marks and fragments of the image show through; the Manet painting is echoed on the digital tablet which displays a blue patch of sky in which swallows dart to and fro.