Edges and Intelligence

A defense of edges from Nighthawks to Diane Arbus.

I kept seeing a clip passed around of a Google Gemini demo that lets you walk into Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. I clicked because the painting is not abstract to me. It is a landmark in my daily orbit. I have lived by the Greenwich Avenue corner for more than thirty years, and the composition sits in my head like a set of angles I know by light. The demo…