The heartbeat, pulse, rhythm of life – speeds up – slows down. The connection between the mind and the body directly relates from the emotional to the physical. This piece is a visual of how that pulse feels at an increasingly intense moment. If the beats represent every second of life, always moving forward, what does the feeling of the beat look like? On an EKG printout, the space between beats depends on the speed of the heart, and the speed of the heart is often determined by how the person feels physically and emotionally. The printout becomes an illustration of the heart’s actions. This lifeline is the culmination of an event that shows the extremes of the ups and downs.