Near Fortunen, Jægersborg Deer Park, North of Copenhagen 1901

Vilhelm Hammershøi captured this scene "Near Fortunen, Jægersborg Deer Park, North of Copenhagen" with oils, layering muted greens and browns to create a hazy atmosphere, like a memory fading at its edges. Imagine him standing there, brush in hand, squinting at the light filtering through the trees. How do you capture that? I see the paint, thin and washy, almost like he's trying to catch a fleeting moment. There's a tenderness in the way he renders the light, those soft, almost ethereal beams stretching across the ground. You feel it, right? The quiet stillness of the park? He isn’t trying to paint a perfect tree. It's like he's inviting us to just breathe, just be. Hammershøi, like all of us, stands on the shoulders of other artists, absorbing and reinterpreting what came before him. And we, in turn, carry his vision forward. Painting is an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas across time.