Ella's Law - I Breathe Out and I Cough and Cannot Breathe

I have created a sound installation of London’s pollution near where I live in Harlesden and around Kensal Green and North Kensington, Portobello Road.

Produced with a fusion of static sounds of the noise pollution from cars and trucks and busy city streets in response to "Ella's Law".

Sounds of church, hymns, hope and memory whilst I sing and chant on my walks around London and gather live sounds. I am autistic and often need to narrate my surroundings in order to go outside.

These sounds contribute to the profound sadness of losing a child.

Collaged with a news report on Ella's death, the landmark ruling highlights how her death could have been so preventable.

Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi Debrah died on 15 February 2013 at the age of nine as a result of asthma contributed to exposure to excessive air pollution in London.

She was a bright, talented girl who loved sports, music and reading. Ella was the first person in England to have air pollution named as a cause of death by a coroner. She is also from a non-white ethnic background.

As Westway rightly highlight, not all communities breathe air equally. In his report, the coroner urged the government to take action to bring air quality up to minimum World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Every year, tens of thousands of people around the UK, mainly people from non-white ethnic backgrounds are killed by air pollution.

This sound art installation from an autistic/ADHD lens aims to act as radical resistance against the polluters. It is time to clean up the air in our towns and cities. The sound art is a messy collage of sounds. It is not meant to be easy listening.

This is about the death of a child because she was breathing poisonous air.

Posters on the wall advertising urban music nights give a sense of locality and location whilst also emphasising identity and sense of place. Ella's school photograph used by the press appears on the poster with the title of the art piece as a symbol of both remembrance but to also challenge those in power to alert them that their policies resulted in the death of a child and it was their policies that enabled and allowed for this to happen.

The posters give the sense of age and time, crumpled and dangerously forgotten. But we must never forget.

Ella's Law is significant, she did not die in vain.