Fotoreproductie van een foto door Franz Holluber, voorstellend een landschap met water en een huis before 1907

This landscape with water and a house, is a reproduction of a photograph by Franz Holluber. It’s found in a book, so you could say it's made of ink and paper. Look closely and you'll see the image is made up of tiny dots, little constellations of tone that give the scene its hazy, dreamlike quality. There is something about the monochrome palette, the silvery greys, that reminds me of early photography experiments. It’s like the artist is searching for something, trying to capture a fleeting moment. I find myself drawn to the way the light filters through the trees, reflecting on the water. The textures feel almost palpable. You can almost feel the cool dampness of the air. It feels like a memory, or a half-forgotten dream, full of nostalgia and yearning. This piece puts me in mind of other landscape painters, like Corot, maybe. Holluber, like Corot, is interested in the poetry of light and atmosphere. Art is an echo chamber of ideas, always in conversation with itself. It’s never fixed, never finished, just a continual process of looking and seeing, of feeling and responding.