Solitude: Man's Best Friend
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." Anatole France.
It's been several times that I have found abandoned dogs or heartbreaking sceneries while shooting in the countryside, and it happened the day I created this image. To me dogs are one of the most pure, beautiful souls on earth and deserve all the best and maybe in an attempt to forget what I saw I felt inspired to create "Man's Best Friend".
The philosopher Seneca said “loneliness is not being alone, but being empty” and that’s something I realized very young. Contrary to what most of us are taught, I believe being alone can be a good thing, and this notion is the basis for Solitude, which aims to explore feelings of lonesomeness in tandem with spiritual connections within the natural world.
Each of these works function as a self-portrait, manifested as an animal, an atmosphere, and visual/emotional phrase, and sometimes simply myself. In each work I explore a moment of profound experience, scenes of wonder that seek to savor quiet moments of unexpected encounters.
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