The installation ] bracket, by Romy Day Winkel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1994) is part of a bigger research project titled Romance Utopia. This project questions how to “save” romance from being instrumentalized for boring or harmful purposes, and instead aims to steer it into a radical direction. ] bracket is an installation that deals with the fear of being followed, informed by the experience of being stalked over the past couple of years. The paranoid perspective that comes with that can feel like a continuous and involuntary trace of someone else, as if there is always a sound shadowing one’s own. By erasing the possibility of hearing someone else’s footsteps, the work aims to tip-toe toward consensual imaginal possibilities, drawing parallels with Anne Carson’s usage of brackets in her Sappho translations.