THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME

The Distance Between You and Me originated from a conversation with my mother after she returned from visiting a close friend who was nearing the end of her life. She described how her friend was experiencing vivid flashbacks, and this reflection prompted the beginnings of a project centred on death and mortality. I worked on the series for nearly a year before setting it aside—the emotional weight of the subject matter proved difficult to navigate at the time. I returned to the work following my brother’s diagnosis with lymphoma. The visual distance I had previously constructed within the images began to take on new resonance, becoming a metaphor for the emotional and existential space between us, and more broadly, the threshold between life and death.