The subject is both a memory and a man.
The images depict a nurse reenacting the final day of a young AIDS patient’s life — but the lines blur quickly. The nurse is also the patient. The body is doubled. The memories loop. In these photographs, the past is not recalled, it is re-inhabited.
The nurse who modeled for this work cared for dozens of dying men in the early ’90s. One particular story — of a patient who bathed himself before death — stayed with him for 30 years. Now in his seventies, HIV-positive, and deeply aware of time’s collapse, he steps back into the role: nude, present, projecting the ghost of the man he once comforted onto the body he now occupies.
No other models were used. Every figure in this series is the same person. Every projection is drawn from medical objects, handwritten notes, or symbolic fragments that shaped that final encounter. The nurse has offered his body to hold this memory — not for closure, but for conversation.