Gezicht op de Hofvijver met het binnenhof te Den Haag 1900 - 1921

E. Visser von Weeren took this photo of the Hofvijver with the Binnenhof in The Hague. I can see the photographer carefully composing the scene and then waiting for the right moment to press the shutter. Snap! I think about what it must have been like for them, setting up the camera, and the way they noticed the light on the water that day. Did they notice the reflection of the building in the water and think to themselves, "Aha! That's what I want to capture!"? I wonder about their thought process when they clicked. The dark tones create a subdued atmosphere, like a memory, and a kind of melancholy permeates the work. The reflections create an ethereal doubling, and the image feels suspended between reality and dream. It reminds me that art is all about the artist's individual lens on the world. Ultimately, this work is about seeing and feeling.