in praise of solitude
IN PAISE OF SOLITUDE is not an illustration. The imaginative process started with the visual image and arrived at its verbal expression. While I was painting it, the thought of finding oneself stranded on it (echoes of Ariadne abandoned in Naxos in Greek mythology), triggered a short story about a woman who instead of dreaming to be rescued, falls in love with nature and decides to become one with the island, solitary and immortal.