The “Breathturn Series” pulls from the poetry of Paul Celan and the history of the Holocaust, honing in on the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland. The works express the energetic buzz and heavy hum of a genocide-drenched landscape through topographical undulations of mass graves disguised as hills. A rising, outward expanse intentionally challenges the weight of the dark depths, creating tension between above and below, stillness and transition, physical and ephemeral. This series is informed by Giannell’s research as an Artist in Residence with the Pienkowski Foundation in Poland in 2019 as well as her time living in Germany.