One can be as lonely as one wishes, but it is impossible to be alone... even on the salt and sterile sea, wait for the calm and lie over the low rail to stare down into the blue glass water and what at first seems a pure medium begins to dance with motes, darting specks, and down at the threshold of the dark,
ominous shadows turn and careen about... it is unbearable to conceive that anything can not have life.»
In «Self - portrait with Crow» an
ominous bird, with unfolded wings violently prearound Blanca, who seems both aware and neglectful of its presence and potential danger by
turning his illuminated back towards the viewer, and walking off into the
shadows behind him.