Air

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, 1892, American poet

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes, 1967, American novelist, playwright

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high. (on bringing aid to Sri Lankan tsunami survivors)
Connie Sellecca, American actress and former model

The Physics of Air
William Jackson Humphreys (1 ed, 1920) Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010) 1161820620
The physical phenomena of the earth's atmosphere are exceedingly numerous and of great importance. Nevertheless, the explanations, of those those well understood, still remain scattered through many books and numerous journals. Perhaps this is because some of the phenomena have never been explained, and others but imperfectly so, but however that may be, it is obvious that an orderly assemblage of all those facts and theories that together might be called the Physics of Air would be exceedingly helpful to the student of atmospherics.
[Physics of Air, introduction, via Google books]

Brief summary of how this topic relates to your work
As I begin to investigate using the sea as a point of departure, I believe that air goes hand and hand with it. Considering the typical Sugimoto seascape photograph, air and sea together create almost yin-yang effect; the churning movement of the sea, for me, metaphor of secrets, thoughts, time and memory; undulate below an equally churning atmosphere. I'm not sure what direction this inquiry will take me in, however, it's led me to consider the air as its other half.