On the right side of the screen flashes the translated words of Mallarme's sonnet: 'Pour votre chere morte, son ami...' (a sonnet written for a friend whose wife has passed). In the particular sonnet Mallarme describes his friend's grief and the wife's death as a 'double tomb'. The video is set up to mimic this closeness of grief and death. The bess beetle (a stand in for the wife) embodies her grief in the present, while the text serves as the epitaph. The end result is a compressed time-space of grief, empathy and the romantic framework of how people cope with loss.
—Anonymous