This paper explores the patchwork of meaning, connections and perspectives within a creative project through the viewpoint of an insider collaborator/performer. It plays across affective registers of distance and proximity by linking personal meaning making to the broader socio-political context through which the work emerged. The piece under discussion, Time Over Distance Over Time is deeply intimate, in that the content is drawn from the lives of the performers who endeavoured to reignite personal connections over large distances and work creatively in a dispersed space before coming together to materialise the work. The presentation weaves between various narrative layers and writing registers to uncover the complexity of the creative process and the subject matter as experienced by the author, touching on experiences of migration in an increasingly globalised world.