'Breath' is made up of two elements: a tall central slab, flanked on each side by seven 'leaves' whose geometry suggests growth. The central element reflects Lutyens' stone of remembrance, a version of which Lutyens had included in his 1920 Southampton Cenotaph, one of four monuments which De Monchaux had framed in his 2000 'Enclosure' in Southampton’s Central Park. The flanking elements were derived from De Monchaux’s 'Silence', the memorial of 2007 set outside the World War Museum at St Lawrence, Jersey. According to the artist: 'My brief for the project called for a new companion piece to the memorial that should "not only commemorate the sacrifices and hardships of local people in war but also that it should mark the furtherance of peace".