Proximity is a self-published, collection of sixteen poems inspired by the varying animal individuals I encountered and filmed during the production of Extimacy. As I filmed each animal at a proximity of twenty centimetres, I became exceedingly aware of the unknowable, of each inner life behind the 'animal surface; the sound and movement of breath; the warmth of the body, or the steady beat of each heart, all of which contained rhythms suggestive of varying levels of consciousness, of different ways of being in the world. Rather than project my ideas or feelings over the animals I encountered, I attempted to respect animal differences and acknowledge their interiority and individual claims on the world. Like the poems, many of the images in the book deny easy recognition of the animals depicted and hopefully stimulate alternative perspectives on how we think and know animals.