Gezicht op Kasteel Doornenburg 1903

This old photograph shows a view of Doornenburg Castle in muted tones. It’s anonymous, this image, and it speaks of a long, lost history. I imagine someone standing in a field, under grey skies, focusing their lens on this solitary castle. What were they thinking when they made it? Were they thinking about history? Did they imagine knights in shining armor and damsels in distress? Or did they just see a building and want to capture its image? Photography, much like painting, has a texture, even if it is not tangible. The sepia tones, the way the light hits the stone, all tell a story. You can almost feel the weight of the castle, its solidity. It’s a world away from the colorful canvases of someone like Turner, yet both capture a particular time and place, filtered through the artist's eye. Art is a conversation, across time, across mediums. It invites us to look, to feel, to imagine. And it’s never just one thing.