Erevan - Sevan Possibly 2004 - 2010

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg shot this photograph, Erevan - Sevan, a meditation on human presence and absence. I find myself wondering about Schulz-Dornburg's process here—the waiting, the watching. It’s a bit like Giorgio Morandi and his bottles. She finds similar architectural structures and returns to them, again and again. The photo shows a bus stop, or the remains of one, with a lone figure standing nearby. It’s a study in geometric forms. The sharp lines of the bus stop contrast with the open landscape, and the human figure adds a quiet sense of scale, highlighting the tension between built and natural space. I wonder, what’s the story here? Is the man waiting for a bus that will never arrive? Or is he simply contemplating the ruins? It’s a dialogue about time, memory, and place. Photography, like painting, is an ongoing inquiry. Artists continually revisit themes, echoing and answering each other across time, in this beautiful, infinite conversation.