A Time of Mourning.

We have all been lonely. We have all felt despair at sometime in our lives. Sometimes we say "I have sunk into the depths of despair," or "I feel like the only person in the whole world who is alone." We know the statements are not literal, but at that moment when it seems all hope is lost we feel that it is quite literal. Maybe our spouse has cheated or passed away. Maybe we have lost a parent or best friend. Perhaps we are suffering from an illness that we just can not recover from. Maybe it is something less severe, but yet it stills feels like the end of the world. We lost our job, our girlfriend dumped us, we don't have as much money as we would like, or we missed a family event because we live too far away. Life is full of it's downers. Situations and events that make us want to scream out in anger and cry into the arms of a loved one all at the same time. We see tragedy in the news almost daily. There has been another shooting spree, a child has been kidnapped, or someone has died in an accident. Our lives are full of tragedy. A young mother looses her children because she is an addict, a child is aborted because a mother was selfish, a father is abusive, a young man commits suicide, or an old man looses his memory and forgets those he loves. These are the events that make us lonely, the events that drive us to despair.

The images you see here are an attempt to capture those feeling. Some are literal while others are far more figurative. These images are not meant to be crude or vulgar, instead they attempt to capture the human condition at it's worst. There is a time for laughter and rejoicing, but there is also a time for mourning. That time is now.