In the mid-seventeenth century, scientists determined that birds, mice, eels, snails and flies were unable to survive in a vacuum chamber.  Nearly four centuries later, the production of stillness is less momentous, and the ability to re-animate an environment has some necessity. As populations relocate, weed-filled parking lots are left to frame vacant shopping malls, creating vacuous spaces that provoke a palpable sense of loss. An Interlude to Stillness presents a momentary remedy for a single site by offering breath to a forsaken place.