Theodoor Brouwers, Ada van Lierop en Lize Brouwers op het terras van plantage Accaribo 1913 - 1930

This is a very small, anonymous photograph of Theodoor Brouwers, Ada van Lierop and Lize Brouwers, taken on the terrace of Accaribo plantation. I like the way it’s almost rubbed away, as though the emulsion is crumbling to dust. There’s something about that slow disintegration that feels so much like painting - that sense of time passing, of matter eroding or building up, accruing meaning as it goes. I wonder, as they sat there on the terrace what they were thinking. What the photographer was trying to capture, and what floated away in the process, the untold stories. The details that escape the frame. This kind of making really invites the viewer to dream and fill in the blanks, and to feel like we, too, are part of the picture and the history of seeing.