#breathingroom

Sometimes it feels like the problem is space.

If only the house were bigger. If only there was one more closet. If only there was better storage.

But more space doesn’t always bring relief. Often, it just gives clutter more room to spread.

Clutter quietly fills every corner—physical and mental. It shows up in the piles you step around, the drawers you avoid opening, and the constant feeling that something is unfinished. Even when life is busy, your home shouldn’t feel heavy.

Breathing room isn’t about empty spaces or minimalism taken to extremes. It’s about intention. It’s about keeping what supports your life right now and letting go of what no longer fits. With the right guidance, creating that space can feel empowering rather than overwhelming—just like the approach at DS Declutrr.

When you create breathing room, something shifts.

Rooms feel lighter. Mornings feel less rushed. You stop fighting your space and start living in it.

Letting go can be uncomfortable. Objects carry memories, versions of ourselves, and expectations we’re not ready to face. But releasing what no longer serves you isn’t loss—it’s alignment.

Your home doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to feel like a place where you can exhale.

People are strange little universes, aren’t they?Everyone’s carrying something. Some seem to coast through life, breezing past traffic lights and emotional potholes. Others, you wonder how they’re still standing.Nature, nurture, the eternal question. What did I come pre-installed with, and what did I quietly pick up along the way? Honestly, I’m still figuring that out. But let’s save that chapter…

So I chase stillness where I can: in half-warm lattes, lazy window seats, and tiny plans that never happened.

Maybe breathing room is less about space, and more about giving yourself a break.

Tiny pauses. Big feelings.

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APRIL 2022 BREATHING ROOM

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MIA GLANZ

April 23: ODYSSEY 8-10pm Burrard View Park

breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation, and community connection. We are delighted to announce our April 2022 breathing room artist in residence, Mia Glanz.

Odyssey: presented as part of the 2022 Capture Festival and the April 2022 breathing room residency

Saturday, April 23 at the Iris Film Collective Fieldhouse at Burrard View Park, 8–10pm

Society Visual Music continues to explore the social and cultural repercussions of the pandemic through video and sound. The project was formed by the limitations of the pandemic, particularly the need to communicate electronic music performance in video packages. As we begin to physically gather together again, everything is not the way it was. Among other schisms, we are divided between our digital and physical selves more than ever. In order to make this change visible, Society Visual Music’s Odyssey will be projected on a screen located outside at Iris Film Collective in Burrard View Park. The projection of a DJ set will stand-in for a physical DJ and set-up. Society Visual Music will film the audience and space during the casual screening event. The live footage will be combined in real time with the Odyssey projection using TouchDesigner, immediately turning the experience digital and 2-D, equalizing audience and performer on screen. We propose a fun, interactive and experimental film screening to be part of Capture Photography Festival.

Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event.

Mia Glanz is an artist living in Mexico City and Vancouver. Working with photography, video, text, ethnography, and new media, her work attends to material culture as an exploration of personhood and social conditions. Mia has a degree in anthropology and plant biology from the University of British Columbia. She has exhibited in Mexico and Canada. Group shows in Vancouver include the Richmond Art Gallery, Access Gallery, Ho Tam Gallery, and Hatch Art Gallery, and photography as performance with the Dance Centre BC. Currently she is making virtual installations with the new media collective Society Visual Music, and working on an image/text book project about the stories in the spaces of the Puerto Rico Apartments in Mexico City.