Untitled (children making sandwiches in kitchen, baby in high chair) c. 1950

Editor: This intriguing gelatin silver print, "Untitled (children making sandwiches in kitchen, baby in high chair)" by Lucian and Mary Brown, feels like a captured memory. The light and shadow play create a rather surreal, almost dreamlike effect. What do you see in this quiet domestic scene? Curator: It’s funny you mention "dreamlike". The reversal of tones gives it that ethereal feel, doesn't it? It makes me think about how even mundane moments, like kids making sandwiches, become mythologized in our memory. What do we choose to remember? What gets lost in translation? This image is like a ghost of a happy afternoon. Editor: That's beautiful. I never thought about it that way. Curator: The everyday is so easily overlooked, isn't it? It's nice to be reminded of its strange magic.