Finding Shelter

Memory, No. 0118

mixed media on paper, 2018

21" x 24"

"Knight is able, after all, to interact with another person, and do so in the most open and vulnerable way.  And right then, I come the closest to understanding why Knight left.  He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him . . . There was no place for him, and instead of suffering further, he escaped . . . The forest offered him shelter.

I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives . . . But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

For Knight, his camp was the one spot on the planet where he knew he belonged."

-passages from pages 182-83

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit