When we look at objects or buildings that seem to be at peace within themselves, our perception becomes calm and dulled.The objects we perceive have no message for us;they are simply there. Our perceptive faculties grow quiet,unprejudiced,and unacquisitive.They reach beyond signs and SYmbOlS; they are open, empty. It is as if we could see something on which we cannot focus our consciousness. Here, in this perceptual vacuum,a memory may surface,a memory that seems to issue from the depths of time. Now, our observation often object embraces a presentiment of the world in all its wholeness because there is nothing that cannot be understood.
There is a power in the ordinary things of everyday life, as Edward Hopper’s paintings seem to say. We only have to look at them long
enough to see it.