Desolation
Desolation as a negative feeling. The sensation of feeling alone, isolated, and ostracized by society for no apparent reason, perhaps just because one is slightly different from others' expectations or simply because one prefers to follow alternative life paths. A seemingly insignificant diversity greatly magnified by the filters imbued with the stereotypes of groups, which, once it is established that one does not fit their aesthetic standards, tend to marginalize the individual, causing them to sink into the deepest apathy. Desolation is not limited to the state of the soul alone but also affects the external dimension and can be depicted as a hostile desert.
The desolation of feeling alone, misunderstood, and abandoned to oneself without any escape from one's decrepit state of inner degeneration, leading to a slow and progressive decline of one's brilliance and emotional-cognitive clarity. A constant loss of one's faculties, mediated by the possible consumption of substances aimed at alleviating the unbearable burden of an existence on the margins of society. A society that has decided to exclude rather than include simply because individuals are different from what is expected. A patched-up head, half destroyed, full of holes and cuts, devoid of identity, which stands like a dry fruitless tree in a patch of dead desert hostile to man, destined to perish slowly, to disappear as if it had never existed. A small dead tree on the left is a warning of a fate already marked, waiting only to be fulfilled. The head represents the lonely man, the desert patch the solitude around him, and the small tree reflects his soul. The black heads below, facing the center, scrutinize the subject intensely, observing indifferently, detached, as if the victim of their gaze were separated from the rest of the world, an enemy towards whom no act of pity and compassion should be directed. A sort of malicious contemplative aestheticism, where one passively and sadistically participates in the annihilation of one's own kind, made possible by the activation of the mechanism of emotional disengagement, where an inconceivable conduct becomes an accepted and legitimately applied activity by the group. The black heads represent society's rejection of non-conformists. The background, rich in disordered shapes and colors, represents the whirlwind of emotions experienced and the distortion and chaos reigning in an inconsistent and uninclusive social context.
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