Bouw van een woonhuis 1914 - 1919

This photograph, "Bouw van een woonhuis," meaning construction of a house, captures a moment in time, a physical structure coming into being, piece by piece. I'm immediately drawn to the raw, unfinished quality—the exposed skeleton of the roof, the workers moving with purpose, the child looking on. It’s almost like looking at an abstract expressionist painting where each mark, each gesture, reveals the process of its creation. You can almost feel the artist sifting through possibilities, making decisions in real-time about placement, about form, about light and shadow. It makes you think about the anonymous maker, who chose this particular perspective, this angle, this framing. What were they thinking as they captured this scene? Were they trying to document progress, or were they, perhaps, searching for something more? Maybe they were interested in the play of light on the construction materials or the relationship between the human form and the emerging architecture. There's a conversation happening here, a dialogue between the present and the future, between the tangible and the intangible. And as viewers, we're invited to participate in that exchange, to bring our own perspectives and interpretations to the table.