Man werkt met vloeistoffen in trechters 1900 - 1920

This black and white photograph by G. Hidderley depicts a man working with liquids in funnels. Look at him there, completely absorbed. It’s a delicate balance, right? Watching, waiting, measuring. I imagine that kind of intensity is like being in the studio, trying to coax something into being, a feeling, an image, a thought. He’s got a whole laboratory set-up on what looks like a simple wooden desk. Notice the careful arrangement of beakers, the glass funnels, the open notebook ready to capture observations. Maybe the repetition of the conical forms is what I like. A sort of mirroring. I find myself wondering what he’s trying to discover. Is he after something precise, or is he open to accidental findings? Maybe he’s a bit of both, like all of us, really. He could be any one of us in our studios. This image reminds me that all creative processes are experiments in a way. We all have to stay curious to keep going.