The slideshow interweaves fragments of a poem by Emily Dickinson with a sequence of 115 ribbons, each tied around a small rectangular card. Every card bears a carefully handwritten date—day, month, and year.

The ribbon cards, dated from 1910 to 1940, were discovered by Connie in a shoebox at a French brocante in the Allier region. She photographed them in 2013 and, in 2025, assembled the images into this video work.

The poem unfolds in measured repetitions: beginning with a single word, then a phrase, and gradually expanding into full sentences. This pacing slows the act of reading, allowing Dickinson’s language to be encountered attentively—word by word—alongside the images, where its cadence can be felt in time.

The ribbon cards and their shifting dates move past at an unhurried pace, creating a contemplative rhythm. In dialogue with the gradually assembling lines of the poem, the work evokes a fleeting, almost dreamlike perception of time—one that is felt, revisited, and momentarily inhabited rather than measured.