Art: Edward Hopper

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I like Edward Hopper, and when I was doing my Big Clean before the New Year, I found a book of postcards I'd bought somewhere. Here are some of my favourites. I love how he portrays solitude as well as loneliness. I like what he does with color, too. You'd think they'd be dull and grey but they aren't.





I am sending the first one to a friend who sent me a very nice and thoroughly unexpected gift for Christmas with a haiku:

jetsam and flotsam
sea suds, wash up, wash away
immutable Yule tide

My favourite of all, however, is Hotel Room (the second one above). It completely captures what I consider to be the best part of my life, from 1997 to 2004, when I was traveling. It's how life was and I loved it.



I like this one, too. I like to imagine the first one is saying to the second one, 'Well, you see, my dear, there was a dressmaker's pin on the floor, so I knew she'd strangled him with her tape measure...."

Comments

[smallhobbit]

They are lovely cards. I do like your interpretation of the last one.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[lunabee34]

Ahahahhaahha at that last.

Those are lovely.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[regshoe]

These are very nice—lovely space and colour, as you say. I can see them making good book covers for some of those nice new editions of early twentieth-century fiction.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ah, thank you! Yes, I see what you mean and agree wholeheartedly.

[scfrankles]

A lovely use of light in the pictures, and I love the story for the last one ^____^

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I was very happy to come across them in my cleaning but a bit troubled, too, because while I have no memory of buying them. Where did I do that? I'm glad I did, regardless.

[debriswoman]

I do like the capturing of light and shade:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, yes, I just love them.