Screaming Abdabs Gallery
‘Since I Lost You’ is a fine art photographic image by the acclaimed Italian photographer Rossano B Maniscalchi.  It is a powerful image which captures a ubiquitus moment with direct simplicity. The viewer is faced with a glass barrier upon which tiny beads of water stand pert to form a dappled screen. From the other side, the face of a beautiful woman looks out. The viewer will never know the nature of her loss, nor the ending to her story. This study is about the moment of realisation in which this woman exchanges her recoil of thought for a desire to escape and search. She is sealed into a watertight vacuum, devoid of the soul which she has lost. The pressure of her three fingers pressed against the glass is the only small clue to her despair. She is captive in this space, but resolute in her expression to find a way out. Her face is calm, yet the droplets of water may well symbolize the tears behind her composed demeanour. Her lustreous soft pink lips gently part to reveal pearls of a potentially devastating smile in happier times. Her soft grey wanderlust eyes remain focused in a steadfast skyward gaze at an object for which her right hand is poised to reach out, the identity of which remains a mystery to the viewer. One can only hope that she will unlock the route to her freedom and reunite with her lost soul.
