Erin Johnson’s Lake revolves around the complexities and interplay in collective living. Drawing closer and drifting away, queer and desirous exchanges arise within the gentleness of the water, in recognition and reconnection with nature. Intimacy and distance are interrelated; intimacy giving someone a space to inhabit that they did not have before encountering you*. In expanding kinship between human and nonhuman entities, Lake invites us to reflect on mutuality and reciprocity in a suspended time frame.