Zetel in het stadhuis van Kampen 1904

This photo by an anonymous artist captures a chair in the town hall of Kampen. I can almost feel the weight of history bearing down on that chair. It's got this faded sepia tone which is the colour of old photographs. It's like a memory—distant but present. I imagine the artist setting up their camera, carefully composing the shot. There's a quiet reverence in the way the light falls on the wood carvings. I bet they were thinking about the passage of time, the stories that these walls could tell. There's a formality to it, but also a sense of decay. You can almost hear the echoes of voices in the hall. We artists are always in conversation with the past, borrowing, stealing, and transforming what came before. And this piece? It's a reminder that everything changes, but some things endure.