Inspired by Edward Hopper

I chose this painting because I feel like I somehow have a personal connection to it. This paining by Edward Hopper reminds me a lot of a painting that my mom had hung up in our dining room when I was younger. I’m not even really sure how I remember the painting, or what happened to it. I think that I must have looked at it so many times because it hung on the wall for so long and I was always fascinated by it. I remember having so many questions about it that nobody in my family could answer.

The painting that I am referring to might always be a mystery because I don’t even know what artist painted it or what the title of the piece was, but I remember it pretty clearly. The painting was of a women behind a bar of a restaurant, I’m assuming she was the bar tender. She had a very tired and worn expression on her face. The women in the painting was wearing old style clothes, if I remember correctly and she had pale skin. I always thought that her face resembled one of a dog, and I’m not sure why I thought that, wild imagination I guess.

I think that my parents liked the painting so much because we have owned multiple restaurants of our own and I think they could relate to the exhaustion in the painting. Or maybe I’m making something up, maybe they had just been trying to fill space on a wall. But even so, it was on the same wall for way too long for them to not like it. I don’t think I noticed it missing for quite some time after it was gone, I think eventually I got tired of looking at it and wondering about it with unanswered questions. I think I studied it all that I could with the years it was up there, on that wall.

I used to imagine being her. I used to think about how that women in the painting, lived. I would make up stories in my head and imagine that I was all grown up to be her age and I worked in that same restaurant too. Of course I never actually knew what it meant to have a job or work in a restaurant but now that I do, I can honestly say, that I was way off from my imaginations. 

Disclaimer to Mrs.Fraser: I think that I missed the mark on this assignment. After writing this piece, I went back and reread the directions in your original post for this assignment I realized that I had the wrong idea of what this post was supposed to be about. If you would like for me to redo this assignment, I would be happy to.