Chop Suey

Pensive, in the least likely locality

Another Hopper influenced shot with the Leica. Many of Hopper's subjects share the theme of isolation in the midst of urban life. His solitary figures in the public or private interior settings appear vulnerable. A nude by a window gazes pensively outside; a woman in an Automat turns inwards, absorbed in her own thoughts. In Hopper's view of the city itself, the few figures that populate the vast urban space are reduced to insignificance. And it is this insignificance that we so often talk about, in the form of demographics, statistics and figures.