Brain Food #432
The silent Nighthawks
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
I often reference Edward Hopper in my posts, an artist who magnificently captured the loneliness of people, even in the most crowded of places. His famous painting, Nighthawks, depicts a scene in a diner, probably at 1 or 2am, in a busy city that could very well be New York or London.
An unknown artist created a render of the diner for the Covid-19 era. Devoid of people, all sitting somewhere else in self-isolation, the diner sits silent, life of any form entirely absent.
Life, for many, was lonely already. Activities could have just been excuses, distractions. Being with ourselves, we have no one else to deal with, at least physically. But that does not equal loneliness. One is better than zero. We can start from there. In one of the strange paradoxes of life, all the lonely figures currently sitting in apartments are united in facing this together. All the lonely figures in Hopper’s paintings will return to the diner soon, with a slightly different outlook on life.