It was, and still is, very strange. I am excited that I don't need to close any doors, that I can wear whatever I want (or nothing at all), that I can eat sour cream or jam from a jar, and so on. Of course, I discussed it with Victor. Actually, as continuation of our "game," I offered him the next theme: "Living single." Well, I have to play with words again. The Russian word "oдиночество" ("odinochestvo") can have different connotations, which in English correspond to various words: from simply "being single," to more melancholic "solitude," to more dramatic "loneliness,"and more. Since I don't mean anything sad or dramatic, I'll just use plain "Living alone."
First, of course, we talked about advantages of living alone. One of them was extra time that you may spend any way you like. For example, doing ceramics. So this was Victor's immediate response (I also used this drawing in the previous post about Women and Vases. It happened to be an intersection of totally different themes!)
But then, inspired by the richness of the topic, I recalled some of Victor's other works. They kind of continue the investigation of all the shades of "being alone" that I mentioned above. Although the following drawings were made awhile ago and were not meant to illustrate any of these synonyms, but that is how I see them.
"Solitude."
"Loneliness"
Well, actually the last drawing can hardly be seen as an advantage... Which brings us to the next portion of this post: Disadvantages of living alone. This was the next theme I offered to Victor, and first he e-mailed me that he couldn't see any. But still drew this one on the same day:
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