gas edward hopperAs a point of no return, Gas by Edward Hopper exposes a boundary between the visible and the invisible, delimited by the road that plunges into absolute darkness. The forest becomes an imperceptible and disquieting force that overflows the picture and only stops at the border of the petrol station: a symbol of industrialisation. Its neutral and formal representation eliminates all temporality, so that the modern world is reassuring because of its