Exploring metempsychosis, the ropes captured imply being bound to physical relationships on earth throughout one's life. Clothes are shells of a human being, cast aside as we grow and mature. The discarded articles bear our scent, a testament that we once existed in this world. 

“To tell someone, with fullness of heart, ‘I love you,’ is virtually the same as saying, ‘You shall never die.'”  – Gabriel Honoré Marcel