Mand met aarbeien 1900 - 1930

Richard Tepe made this photograph of a basket of strawberries sometime in the past. The sepia tones give it a timeless quality, like an old memory or a dream half-forgotten. What strikes me is the texture. Look at the surface of those strawberries – each seed a tiny dark dot against the pale fruit. It’s almost pointillist, like a Seurat painting, but created by nature and captured by the camera's eye. The leaves beneath, soft and crumpled, provide a delicate contrast to the berries’ firm roundness. The light catches the edges of the basket, making it shimmer. There’s a stillness here, a quiet contemplation of simple beauty. It reminds me of other still life artists, maybe someone like Giorgio Morandi, who found endless fascination in the ordinary objects around him. Art is so often about the everyday, the things we overlook, and how an artist can make us see them anew. It’s a conversation, each artwork echoing and responding to those that came before.