Prentbriefkaart met vijf mensen die reusachtig graan proberen te oogsten 1909

This postcard, made by the Martin Post Card Co. shows five figures in a field of wheat. I can feel the tactile experience of making it, the labor and the process, not unlike making a painting. I'm thinking about how the image came into being. Did the photographer carefully arrange the scene, or did they just capture a moment in time? Look at those figures in their wide-brimmed hats, lost in the landscape of wheat stalks! It's almost biblical. The wheat stalks, so close together, create a sense of texture and pattern. I'm reminded of Agnes Martin's grids or the repetitive marks of a Cy Twombly painting. There's something deeply satisfying in the rhythmic quality of the lines. I'm thinking about the way the artist captured a sense of light and shadow, creating depth and dimension in the image. It's like they were painting with light. This postcard reminds us that art is all around us, in the most unexpected places.