Villa en groepsfoto 1940 - 1945

This photo album page includes two black and white photographs. You know, I can almost feel the photographer carefully arranging these snapshots on the grey page. A villa sits atop the image on the left, like a dream of domestic tranquility, while a group of military men on the right pose with a barrel and what seems to be a shared sense of camaraderie. What was the photographer trying to capture? The geometry of the building, the natural light creating shadows that reveal the textures of brick and foliage? Or was it the humanity of the group photo, a moment frozen in time? I wonder if the artist ever pondered the delicate balance between public and private, order and chaos, structure and improvisation, as much as I do when I start on a new painting? It's all a big conversation anyway, artists just throwing in their two cents.