Portret van Corry Mak van Waay-Zulver met een baby 1934 - 1935

This black and white photograph presents a portrait of Corry Mak van Waay-Zulver with a baby, and it makes me wonder about the hands of the artist, the process of creating, shifting, and emerging through intuition. I sympathize with the artist as they capture the subjects. What might they have been thinking when they made it? Is the light soft and diffused? Are the textures smooth and matte? I can feel the emotional and intellectual resonances of the work. The gesture of the mother holding her child communicates so much. It makes me think of other mother and child paintings throughout art history. Artists are in an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. This photograph is a form of embodied expression that embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.