Sarah Konoski

And, yeah, that was a nightmare.

So I've certainly never wanted to have another one of those again.

You know what?

Surprisingly well.

The heat and humidity is a big problem for me, but Mongolia was a treat.

You know, I was thinking actually quite clearly, aside from, you know, it being painful at times for your body, my mind for those moments that you can go out into minus 50 for 20 minutes of filming that you've got to retreat.

But for those times, I actually felt really invigorated.

Maybe it's a kind of Wim Hof philosophy of helping with inflammation, the cold actually being your friend in that way.

So look, I've been doing cold showers and some sort of deep breathing and circular breathing and things like this to help me.

So I think the cold is my friend and perhaps it was the perfect film for me to get involved with.

Yeah, look, I think she...

She'd spent her whole life making work about death and about life, but about the cycles in nature and about that liminal space between life and death.

She just knew it.

She'd walked there.

And I feel like she didn't need to talk about her own terminal illness or what plans needed to be made or, you know, to be totally expressive about what she was going through with her second child.

and ended up being deadly cancer.

She kind of just lived it.

So, yeah, there's a part of me that regrets not being able to talk with her so openly about her imminent death the second time around.

But also, yeah, maybe because she'd come so close to it, it was just implicit to her and she lived such a graceful life

yeah dignified and but yeah searching life she was she was an artist who just every day was a bonus from that time that she was read her last rights as a as a small small girl so i feel like she um