PROJECT 2: ROOM AND NARRATIVE

EDWARD HOPPER
'SUNLIGHT IN A CAFETERIA














NARRATIVE

"Unsettling tension between the two figures, who are clearly aware, but do not acknowledge each other's presence"

The idea that I received from the painting was the tension between the man and woman. There is little communication between the figures suggesting the lack of emotional interaction in much of modern life. The unsettling relationship between the two figures in the painting then became the two forms of architecture that came together in a disconcerting way.

Also the relationship between the new and old was played on as from the painting we get a glimpse of the building in the background which is a traditional classical city building. Edward Hooper talked about modern life and how it has changed the way we interact in society, so this was taken and manipulated to create a modern looking and shaped building that sits between two traditional city scapes building also causing tension between the new and old facades.