The Look

2001, Dallas

Adri writing something at the computer, summer of 2001, pre-911 before everything changed. The Pandemic in 2020 would also be another huge dividing moment in history, one that definitely was a turning point in her life and for our relationship and dynamic (for the worse) which I believe greatly contributed to her fate. 

It's so hard to look at pictures like this, unposed shots where she's staring right into the camera, my eye, looking out from a past that is gone forever. Yet I struggle to look away, to stop staring at this picture and others like it. Not out of some sort of masochism, but rather, I think, because I don't want to sever that connection. 

What was she thinking here? And how can there be consciousness one moment and then suddenly it's gone?