PANDORA’S BOX

The story of Pandora’s box is well-known.

But what is often forgotten is that the main import of the story is not how all the world’s ills were released upon it. What is important, is that after sadness, strife, evil, and all other forms of misfortune escape and fill the world around us, there is one thing remaining at the bottom of the box: hope.

But, as one man asked while standing on the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge: “What happens when you open the box and hope isn’t there.”
Depression, melancholy, emotional duress, enter everyone’s life at some stage. It is an unavoidable reality of being human. But there is a world, a separate world, where people live every day with an empty box, a box without hope. It is not a transient condition, a self-limited thing. It is a way of life, a day-to-day existence. A struggle against oneself.
It is something that is almost impossible to understand if you have not lived it.
The works here hopefully provide a glimpse into that world.