8/5/21 - 8/15/21 | This is a series of photographs taken over a period of 10 days where my partner and I, in a new relationship, both contracted breakthrough covid infections. Confined to our illness in a one bedroom apartment, we lost our sense of smell but learned true love. These photographs serve as a recollection of intimacy and love in a time of mystery, frailty, and uncertainty.

We slept and sweat in the same sheets for those ten days. Drank cups of water and tea, slept, showered, ate strange meals, slept, kissed, showered, cried.

The tenants beneath knew us by our footsteps and the way the furniture moved under us. I wore the same dress everyday, stained the same dress, and cleaned it repeatedly. We sat on my fire escape desperately wishing we could be with those walking beneath us but also not wanting our time to end.

I fell in love
And lost my senses
Literally.
I don’t quite fully understand it, But I also don’t want to know the precise reason why.
It’s better to leave it unknown. www.keliaideishi.com