#Hermitage

Hermit life is a pastime of fleeing civilization’s cacophony and pondering one’s existence to the scent of mosquito coils. In practice, any ideal or silence evaporates with the flick of an electric kettle switch, spawning residents of huts who secretly long for city lights. They chant self-sufficiency while finding solace in the thud of delivery trucks and having their meditation interrupted by wildlife. Ultimately, those who stage solitude often care most about unseen observers.

A hermitage is a luxurious retreat erected to flaunt spiritual virtue by abandoning worldly clamor. Under the guise of introspection it severs contact, staging mystique for onlookers. The more it feigns sanctity, the more it proclaims its isolation, ultimately serving as a device to satisfy supreme ego display.