N.063 - ’A Pucundria

Pucundria is a complex feeling. It is not just nostalgia for a place or a memory. It is something lost, yet still alive in remembrance: pain, but also solitude, and a love that has been consumed or, at times, never fully expressed. It is what you might feel when you leave your homeland, or when you return only briefly, rediscovering moments in which to let yourself drift, until the next departure. The illustration shows a night or evening scene: a woman gazes out of a train window. Outside, Vesuvius and the moon light up the sky. A dark figure sits across from her, reinforcing a sense of solitude, even within a shared space.