The words arise from intimate conversations with her beloved during repeated departures after 2022 — moments of leaving without certainty of return, undertaken to preserve the life of their newborn child. The text records a lived condition of displacement and the ongoing search for safety and stillness. It is inscribed onto a curtain-like membrane constructed from sewn-together pieces of treated leather. The membrane functions as a second skin — at once shelter and boundary — suspended between body and space.

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