An intimate portrait of the inside world

Absence. Everybody has gone through this feeling almost once in his lifetime, and everybody knows that awful sense of emptiness so hard to describe. In my life, absence has been a main element since I was a child, and it has been very painful for me, so I started to analyze this feeling in order to understand how to manage it. Through this project I would express what I have learned about absence, that is that it’s not just what we don’t have anymore or what we have lost. Absence is more like a clear presence of something that doesn’t give up, that lasts over time even if we can’t see it anymore. During the darkest and quietest hours, the city reveals all the signs of daily life and gives emotions ranging from anxiety to calm, from the fear of being alone in the silent night to the relief of feeling welcomed to places that are no more asphyxiating. By walking in the night around the city, I’ve found out how much similar were that sense of emptiness, awful but almost comforting at the same time, and the almost deserted streets, illuminated by the typical yellow lampposts, frightful and definitely fascinating.