n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

created 3-25-16
Strathmore art journal
glue stick
scissors
art paper
ad from AAA travel magazine
chopsticks wrapper from a Japanese restaurant I ate at alone on my day off, even though my husband had been gone on a trip for a week and had just come back.