Total Loneliness Print

    Man lives and dies in absolute loneliness. He arises from lonely ashes and becomes lonely ashes. We suffer from loneliness. No matter how hard we try to forget ourselves in guilt, in passion, in divinity, we cannot escape the main essence of man.      God has rewarded us with cruel gifts, and the cruelest of these is thinking. We can look at existence in the abstract and so we can imagine a world without us. On one side we suddenly realize that we can die. And as a consequence, we experience the greatest crisis of humanity. We create projects of our own immortality performing in stone, in ink, in paint, as if shouting, "my conceptual self will live forever!" On the other side, we realize that the world quietly exists without us. Our lives essentially change nothing, we are alone and the world doesn't need us. This is where the paradox arises.  We try to avoid loneliness, and we fear that which unites us all: death. Death is the transition from the individual to the collective. It is the dissolution into the common ether of all that has ever existed and will ever be conceived. It is the merging with the great cycle of life, the logical conclusion and beginning of rebirth.        And yet we find ourselves in perpetual fear of generalization.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.