Where the Flower of our Army hurled back the Prussian Guards, Beury Chateau, Festubert 1914 - 1918

This stereoscopic image, made by Realistic Travels, shows Beury Chateau in Festubert. It's a black and white photograph, and it feels like the artist is trying to capture something that’s already gone. I can almost feel the weight of the rubble and the stark, skeletal trees reaching up. There’s a tension between documentation and feeling. I wonder if they felt a sense of responsibility to record the scene accurately, but at the same time, they’re dealing with the emotional impact of the devastation. It makes me think about how artists today wrestle with similar challenges, trying to make sense of chaos and destruction through their work. Like Leon Golub, who grappled with the horror of political violence. This image feels like an ancestor to that kind of work. We’re all in conversation with each other, across time.