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Loneliness, I began to realize, was a populated place: a city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost… I wanted to understand what it means to be lonely, and how it functioned in peoples lives, to attempt to chart the complex relationship between loneliness and art.

What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we’re not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people, particularly if we don’t find speaking easy? Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged? And is technology helping these things? Does it draw us closer, or trap us behind screens?