Verwoest fabriekje of werkplaats in een ondergelopen buitenwijk van Parijs 1910 - 1911

This photograph by G. Dangereux captures a destroyed factory in a flooded suburb of Paris with tones of grey and white. The image seems to have come into being through intuition, where light and shadow define shape, structure, and collapse. I feel for the artist, thinking about what it might have been like to stand there, witnessing such devastation, trying to capture it. Look at the skeletal remains of the buildings, and the way the water reflects and distorts. The surface of the photograph almost dissolves into abstraction. It reminds me of some of Camille Corot's landscapes. Each gesture, each angle of light, communicates loss. Artists have this ongoing exchange across time; each idea inspires the next. There's ambiguity here, an invitation to look and feel without needing a fixed meaning. Uncertainty itself becomes a form of expression.