Close Your Eyes

Everything around us was still, except for the sounds and the passing of time. Each of us was living a private moment: her eyes were closed, mine were wide open.

In a public place, everyone is looking at you, and there is no room to withdraw into your own silence. Yet closing your eyes, even for a second, takes you into your imagination, in the presence of others.

The young women I photographed closed their eyes and let me listen to their thoughts. I wrote down what I heard, without knowing whether the words came from the real world or not. It is how I feel in front of a mirror, the only moment I truly look at myself: reaching that inner self seems both inevitable and impossible, like photography itself.