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1940, 2015, blind, daylight, Edward Hopper, eyes, faces, identity, light, looking, night, office, portrait, seeing, streets, time, walls, work, years
Office at Night, 1940
you cannot see your own eyes while looking
or your face when working late
macabre with its daylight paint
because the light across the wall from the street
will not work its way over the room
only the blind will lean
inwards
slightly and
briefly
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
Edward Hopper & identity wormhole: Hotel Room, 1931
eyes & light wormhole: new garden
looking wormhole: my way
night & years wormhole: the silent night of the Batman
seeing & time wormhole: … the discipline of shamatha / the waft of vipashyana
streets wormhole: Christmas lights / around the lamp post
walls wormhole: 1967
work wormhole: the warp and the plumbing
mlewisredford 
what a striking image – seeing your own face – and the next line “macabre with its daylight paint” – striking!
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and what a gift from you: to read so precisely and offer the sight back; thank you
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well, you know, now that I’m back, I might as well 🙂
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where you been?
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I spent some time abroad, but mainly I’ve just been preoccupied and haven’t had the time to post. Oh me, oh life!
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I was watching the tides.
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… like a moon?
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more or less, but then the sun rose.
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Gives me the sense of being watched. And not benevolently.
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that’s what comes of working too late at the office; too involved, should’ve gone home long ago, too much temptation to lean in
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Better to hang out than to lean in, I’m thinking. 😀
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or, even better, flop yourself over a pilates ball
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