El Palacio, 1946
A watercolour of a rundown, deserted street in Mexico shows a hotel far from palatial. Is this one of the small towns the Hoppers drove through on springtime journeys. Jo driving, Edward sketching, the old Packard’s windows open. He sees stucco buildings with rooftops corroded, second story windows hollowed out. Wrought iron balconies over unlit neon signs for Ford, for theatre and dance halls. Industry, too, has closed down, left this town. The steel building with a chute behind El Palacio rusts while mountains beyond are weighted in Hopper’s grays and blacks. Gaping doors darken this street which once could have been painted pastel pink and sky blue. Now tinted with marquees no one is there to see. Except Edward Hopper with his fondness for icons, his need to inhabit abandoned places. Diana Pinckney Diana Pinckney, Charlotte, NC, has five collections of poetry, including The Beast and The Innocent, 2015, FutureCyclePress. She is the Winner of the 2010 Ekphrasis Prize, Atlanta Review’s 2012 International Prize and Prime Number’s 2018 Award. She admits to being addicted to writing ekphrastic poems and has led a workshop on this form for the Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts.
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