My first post amid social distancing, is a narrated article on Edward Hopper. Hopper’s paintings and the ideas about his work in this essay spoke to me as I picked up groceries from the store and saw expressed in the people around me that underlying sense of loneliness I often feel is present in urban American life in Los Angeles, but sitting quietly beneath the surface of our niceties. The changes we have all faced in the last week seem to have made that quiet loneliness much louder. But I for one am not impartial to a sense of nostalgia, a feeling of longing and persistent incompleteness that could live happily in me forever. Trying to fill in that whole in my chest is the fuel for my creative work.
I hope you also feel that this time of solitude will bring out a great new wave of creative flourishing that has been humming just below the surface. This essay was written by my late father Peter Fuller, the screenplay I recently completed about him called MODERN ART, before the shut down had just won Best Screenplay (3rd Place) at Hollywood Reel Film Festival and had been accepted as Official Selection in competition or Finalist placement in Beverly Hills Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival, Big Apple Screenplay Competition, Firenze FilmCorti International Festival (Italy), Film Arte Festival (Madrid), Drama Inc Screenplay Competition, and Twister Alley Film Festival. All of which have been postponed by at least a couple months to protect public health and safety. But the good news is they will be back on soon and in the meantime you can read more of Peter Fuller’s essay on my site.