North Pond Hermit

The North Pond Hermit was a man named Christopher Knight who spent 27 years without human contact in Maine's North Pond lakes. The design is intended to be used as an illustration for a digital news article, supplementing where a picture might go. In the fashion of a true hermit, Knight was very reserved and served his prison sentence (for burgarly) quietly, only speaking to one journalist throughout his stay. When asked about his life in the woods he replied "The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.” I wanted to capture his oneness with nature, so I have him, dark and dull, hiding behind lively mushrooms and leaves, obscuring the man who wants to be left alone.