Maastricht. Helpoort c. 1919 - 1950

This is an old image, it's called 'Maastricht. Helpoort', and was made by an anonymous artist. This piece is like a photograph of a building, but what’s cool is how it makes you think about other stuff. The light is so soft and dreamy. It's almost like a painting. There’s this feeling of time passing, of old stories hidden in the stones. I wonder what it was like to be the person walking past that place every day? Did they ever think about who built it, or what secrets it held? It's like looking at something familiar but seeing it in a new way. Like when you try to remember your childhood and can’t quite get it right. Maybe you look at someone like Bernd and Hilla Becher. They were photographers interested in industrial architecture, but with a similar interest in the repetition and variation, and the way that looking at things very clearly can also make them very strange. It's all about seeing the world around us in a new light, and remembering that nothing ever stays the same.