Bar Fridman-Tell

He loves her.

He has a whole relationship with her.

It's impossible for him to imagine that she's forced into it.

And the lengths he goes to convince himself that it's not the case and to convince himself that the relationship is balanced and that she has a choice and to try and give her a choice as well.

He actively tries to give her a choice while also taking it away from her.

I think this is really because consent is in the real world.

Consent is a lot of time it's just violated.

which is awful and horrible and this is the world we live in.

But there's also this line that we walk through in relationships with the people we love where the violation is not clear-cut and where it happens in such slow increments that it's really hard to catch the moment you creep over it.

And I really wanted to capture that and to have people think about

what it means for them and how it resonates with their experience and how it makes them rethink their own relationship, hopefully.

I haven't really thought about it from that angle, from the ecological angle, because it's not so much sacrificed as changed, as forced to take a different form.

And for me, that was another way of control, of taking something that doesn't belong to you and shaping it to something else without consent.

And yeah, it's pretty hard to ask for consent from flowers or from plants.

Forest animals.

But it's another layer of at what point do you trip over the boundary?

Where the boundary lies?

Is it there?

I was very, very, very curious about this concept of like where the line passes.

And I think I, without realizing, just chased it in every way I could.