# edward hopper's long leg remix // image here price for this concept as virtual art experience: insert here example artistic statement robert what: not merely somehow existentially 'darker'(tm) an interpretation more a modern revealing and re-colouring of implicit ideas already in situ a rough daubed sky takes the place of the myth of untrammelled existence. the sea gives up (/on) its lonely ungrateful dead. hopper alleged wife beater and alienating professional miserablist calmly paints yet another cryptic self portrait. someone has torn a rough paper strip from the sky which also looks like a giant wave. a pale yellow burn infects the centre-line. a wooden sloop in the foreground the boat heeling in a stiff silent wind from the imagined faded west - the sails on fire in the setting sun typically no people are seen onboard since edward himself appears here as the symbolic boat ploughing through the dark troubled blue. a sandy shoreline rests uneasily in the background along with a lighthouse set against firm charcoal shadow. leaving (abandoning?) the safety of the idea of "home" for a lonely dangerous ongoing journey into endlessly self-limiting ego. the rough spotted texture adds a note of decorative whimsy to an otherwise unadorned life // republic of bob