How did you choose the actor you collaborated with?<\/strong><\/p>\n I wanted to feel, as deeply as possible, the presence of the person I had lost, while also stepping back into the version of myself who loved him. We needed to embody the two people I remembered. I worked with a casting director to find someone who could move through this story with me, someone who could help me relive it.<\/p>\n What was it like to have an unknown body and person reenacting such personal memories?<\/strong><\/p>\n It was painful. I didn\u2019t want to go through it again, to lose him all over. The hardest part was knowing how it would end, and choosing to live through it once more.<\/p>\n Weren\u2019t you afraid of distancing yourself from those memories, of losing the intimate bond you had with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n Those memories already felt taken from me, that\u2019s what inspired the project. They no longer existed as they once had; they\u2019d been overwritten. In a way, that distance was already there. This process became a way of reclaiming them, of existing in the story a little longer before saying goodbye.<\/p>\n Writer Alice Notley says that writing is not therapy and that she still carries her grief. Is it the same for you with photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n Art has given me a language to process, to feel. There\u2019s a part of me that wants to rush that process, but it doesn\u2019t work that way. I felt it deeply in my previous work: how much I wanted to let go of the story, to not be defined by it, and how it only became possible when I was actually ready.<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/assets.vogue.com\/photos\/69fafe897533838d3d7e8cfd\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/d5.jpg\"\/)
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