Pascale

I keep meeting women in clubs, cafés, at parties—always the same type, always the same result. We click immediately and spend the next few days together, sleeping in her apartment, ordering pizza, talking until the sun comes up. Then I disappear.

What draws me in is being close to someone when they’re entirely unselfconscious. I want to be in their space, understand how they live, how they move around alone. But I don’t want anything beyond those days. The moment it could become real, I’m already thinking about the exit.

Pascale Hunt, a model from Hong Kong photographed by David Collier in Marrickville, has that quality that pulls at something in me. Collier caught her in unguarded moments—sleeping, showering, smoking. That’s what I’m always looking for when I meet someone: that openness, that absence of performance. A few days of it, then I’m gone.

Now I’m thinking about finding another one. Someone interesting, someone I can be close to without pretense, at some club or café where the connection is immediate. It always starts the same way, and I always know exactly when I’ll leave.