Bij Voorburg 1915

H.C. Wilkens made this photograph, Bij Voorburg. I look at this image, and I imagine the artist searching for that perfect angle to capture the light and shadow playing on the old walls, the ducks and the water… It feels like a moment frozen in time, a quiet observation of daily life in Voorburg. The composition is fascinating; I mean, it's not symmetrical or balanced in any obvious way. The artist really had me looking at the textures of the building. It's almost like the building is breathing. Painters and photographers, we're all in this ongoing conversation, right? We riff off each other's ideas, challenge each other's perspectives, and inspire new ways of seeing. And in the end, it's not about finding one definitive meaning or interpretation, but about embracing the ambiguity and uncertainty.