Photographs Inspired by Hopper

On a summer evening, the luminous sky traces the blocky, weathered wood building with bands of soft blue, salty gray and creamy tangerine. Hopper spent nearly 40 of his 84 summers in Truro, the rolling, lightly populated stretch of the Cape between Provincetown and Wellfleet. Together, these three communities comprise the Outer Cape: lands that, while connected to the mainland, have long served as a haven for those seeking something different. Over the decades, as his work developed, Hopper returned each year to this simplicity: old wooden houses in an open landscape of beach, heath and woodlot. A few midsummer days spent in Truro makes clear that the particular aspect of Cape light that appealed to Hopper comes when the summer sun starts to toy with setting, dropping just under the remains of an unsettled afternoon sky. It can last for hours, or just seconds, but that is what Hopper chose to carry back to his studio. Naturally, as an artist living on Cape Cod I'm inspired by this rare light and those artists who are able to share this wonder... ergo, Inspired by Hopper.