Portret van een vrouw en een man met snor 1895 - 1920

This photographic portrait by Wolffram & Comp. captures a woman and a man with a very fine mustache. I look at this image and I wonder about the making, the choosing of clothes, the moment when the photo was taken. You just know they’d be thinking about how they looked. I can imagine what the artist might have been thinking when they made it. As a painter I sympathize with the artist. What is it like to be an artist? What does it take? The artist and the viewer are engaged in the same act, a process of making. It’s a conversation across time. It’s all about inspiring creativity. Painting is an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty.