Opzichterswoning / Brugbouw Wittewaterkreek 1907

Here's a photo of the supervisor's house and a bridge being built over the Wittewaterkreek creek. It's a black and white shot, maybe developed in a dark room where someone watched the image slowly come into focus. I feel for the photographer, trying to capture this whole scene. You know, the house, the trees, the building, the bridge... It's like they're trying to pin down this little corner of the world, make it stay still long enough to really see it. The bridge is like a precarious line drawn across the water. It makes me think about how we're always building these structures, these connections, trying to get from one side to another. And the house, perched there on the edge of the jungle, it's like a little beacon of order and control, a symbol of what we're trying to do, staking our claim on the land. It reminds me that art is always an act of building and bridging. It's about connecting with each other across time and space and it's never a solitary activity.