The Yawning Booth installation is a yawning experience.

It is a cozy little booth that people go to Yawn in.

Inside the booth soft sounds of continuous Yawning is heard.

It is a doorway to sensory experience illustrating brain interconnectivity as the Yawn is passed from one body to another through ears and eyes.

I created the Yawning audio track by recording the sound of yawning alone to a tape cassette recorder. When listening back to each previous Yawn, I would, of course, have the compulsion to yawn again. Thus the next Yawn was recorded, one after another, fed by the previous one. It goes on for many minutes.

The Yawning Booth looks like an out-house from the outside. A one-person hut where one goes to sit instead of shit. It’s like a telephone booth where instead of communicating words, one gives and receives Yawns.

Inside the Yawning Booth, sounds of human yawning (Sunny) enter through the visitor’s ears. A yawn, like an invisible object, is absorbed into their body via the hearing senses. With the magic of interconnectivity, mirror neurons, and the various words and ways we use to comprehend this mysterious phenomenon, the guest feels compelled to yawn. In the Yawning Booth, a live video camera consensually facing the guest, captures the yawns, which are live projected elsewhere in the gallery. In the Yawning video display, the observer catches the Yawn visually, via the live video from with the booth.

All beings Yawn. Dogs, Cats, Humans, Birds, even Fish Yawn.  We pass Yawns human to human and Yawns are also interspecies, giving and receiving them through species. Rich people pass yawns to poor people and vise vera. Humans Yawn to stay awake. Humans also feel the Yawning compulsion while awakening to plant medicine and psychedelic experience. Interspecies, interclass, and even inter-dimensional. Yawns are a bridge to new perspectives of understanding interconnectivity of all beings.

2012 ‘Yawning Booth’ in the Pioneer Works Sculpture Garden, Redhook Brooklyn NY. 
Hurricane Sandy destroyed and nearly carried the Yawning Booth out to sea at Pioneer Works Sculpture Garden. The out-door, interactive sculpture was destroyed by the flood in Redhook Brooklyn.

2013 ‘Yawning Booth’ at "Dial Collect" group exhibition, SOMArts San Francisco CA. April 4-26