I Lost a Year

I Lost a Year and What I Couldn't Say are companion pieces that examine grief from opposite sides of silence. One traces the inward collapse of a self-held together by discipline and restraint; the other reveals the quiet exhaustion of loving someone through distance, fear, and unspoken loyalty. Together, they explore how time can be lost not through absence, but through endurance-and how two people can survive the same year without ever fully meeting inside it.