Zeven sloepen 1953

This double-image photograph of boats moored at docksides—we don’t know when it was made, or by whom. I think it’s interesting that it's anonymous; it's kind of nice and freeing to think about images appearing with no known author. The composition feels as if it's been put together by an editor or curator, someone who has an eye for how images relate to one another. Were they once separate? What’s interesting is the way they are arranged on the page and how that effects the negative space around the images. It has a surreal quality to it. It makes you question what the purpose of the arrangement might be, what it is saying, and why those images in particular? I like to think of painting as a conversation, and, here, these images are in a conversation, with the silent editor or curator as well as the photographer.