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162 || FASHION MAGAZINE || FEBRUARY 2015rowing out of my deep connection and interest in the novel %u201cSteppenwolf%u201d by Herman Hesse, this new artistic project of mine, the %u201cSteppenwolfe Series,%u201d is an ongoing visual expression of my own feelings of displacement and alienation from the society which I live in. Much like the title character of Hesse%u2019s work, I feel a willful need to distance myself from my environment, despite a contradictory desire to be part of that same environment.My %u201cSteppenwolfe Series%u201d is a visual attempt to capture the same feelings of loneliness and isolation. My subjects are often anonymous, wandering people, dark and mysterious, walking through the back alleys of society. The scenes are often in decaying environments, which represent the sagging of society around us all. You the observer are a voyeur looking in at characters in a scene that are unaware of you, looking off at some unknown and unattainable goal, locked in an insubstantial inner world. %u201c%u201dAh, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, with its architecture, its business, its politics, its men! How could I fail to be a lone wolf%u2026and in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments of these Americanized men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am the Steppenwolf who I often call myself; the beast astray who find neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.%u201d ~Herman Hesse JERILAMPERTPHOTOGRAPHY%u201cSteppenwolfe Series%u201dA point of view of the world we live in by: