SOLITARY HUMAN FIGURE

This series of monotypes Solitary Moments is a heartbreaking window through which Solitary Human Forms, the title of this important series of prints, express a modern day crisis of loneliness and despair.

It is also about disconnection, loss, and the mourning of a viable existence that once was. 

HOPE—remains— the last thing to die. Faith lingers, imagining the return of a life worth living.  

Solitary Human Figure

Exiled

 Homeless

Disconnected

Helpless

and inwardly Vulnerable.

Poised and clothes-less

Stranded precariously 

in a time-less place

where space envelopes 

and numbs the sight,

neither imposing, nor responding

to sound-less pleas of melting tears.

An unshakable wall freezes time.

A glimmer of luminosity pierces a forlorn soul

and ignites the heart with a hopeful spirit

and a new start of a unknowing journey.

John Avakian   January 2000, 2018, 2019, 2020(revised)

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