This immersive installation is aimed at locating the material quality of grief, and at exploring how material and movement can demonstrate and embody grief as something that is active and processal. This kinetic drawing-in-space functions as a 3D diagram of the circuit of feeling and response at play within affect. Within Present Absent, both nailing and stretching cord to it’s limit pinpoints the perpetual agony experienced in grief, as a ‘limit’ experience, where the materiality and contortion of the cord embodies the ricochet movement from a mnemonic to affect, in dense black.