"To experience solitude you must be able to summon yourself by yourself," she writes.
Some people look at my work and they say, "Okay, let's grant her that you shouldn't take out your phone when you are with other people, but who am I hurting if I take out my phone when I'm alone?" What you're hurting is yourself and your capacity to experience solitude enough to then be ready to be in a relationship.
I was attracted to moments of other people experiencing solitude, privacy, and intimacy, despite being surrounded by cameras and feeling pretty exposed and vulnerable because it was my first time hosting a documentary for VICE.
achilltourism.com Nadette Paddling around the uninhabited St Anna archipelago, only two hours from Stockholm, you'll experience true solitude.
But culture isn't experienced in solitude.
Everything once inside is outside, a click away; much that used to be outside is inside, experienced in solitude.
One study found, for example, that participants experienced pleasurable solitude and less stress when using their tablets in the privacy of their bathrooms.
At the time I was trying to write a book myself, which was going to be a collection of interviews with people who had experienced extreme solitude, and it occurred to me that the condition of being severely disabled was one where this was an inevitable side-effect.
How often do you allow yourself to experience real solitude?
There is study after study saying the same things: talk to each other, experience solitude, experience boredom.
For me, its appeal doesn't lie in voyeurism, as such, but in how it allows you to experience a sort of solitude, a specific type of observation, which isn't possible when you're physically present within those environments.
