We are our own universes. Each of us. Life is a journey through an immeasurable collection of such universes. How this journey will go, where it will take us, is not only up to us; hence our being lost, waiting for a helping hand or a happy coincidence; hence our projections of the future, but also memories of the past. Everything comes back. Panta rhei. But somewhere on this trail, each of us finds this one and only place that is home. Home not in a sense of the material four walls, but such constellations of different universes that together make up this space that can be called that. And this is the most beautiful part of it. In his book, Damien Daufresne unveils the secret of one such universe—Undertow. As Marie Belorgey writes in her essay: 'The pictures open and fold back on themselves by turns. They renew their sound, their weight, unfold their depth, or don't, depending on the moment. The skins' grain answers the photographic material's, alternately expanding and tightening like starlings in flight, unravelling the metamorphoses of a same, luminous momentum, a flesh shared by beings and places, manifested following different degrees of density, permeability, transparency. Here and there the film, scratched, smeared with salt, studded with fingerprints, meets with the texture of a world we can feel is loved in all its forms.'