Meidoorn in bloei 1900 - 1930

Richard Tepe made this photograph, Meidoorn in bloei, with gelatin silver print. There is a stillness, a hum, to this image, so different from the vivid stimulation of the city. It feels like an antidote to all the noise, a visual hush. The composition guides the eye gently through the scene, a dance between light and shadow. The textures, so finely rendered in gelatin silver, invite a kind of tactile imagination. You can almost feel the cool, damp earth beneath your feet. The way the light filters through the trees, dapples the foliage, it’s pure poetry. Looking at the top left of the frame, where the branches reach out, you sense the quiet persistence of nature, its ability to thrive, adapt, and surprise. Tepe’s work reminds me a little bit of the painter Piet Mondrian, who spent his life looking at trees. Art, like nature, is an ongoing conversation, a dance between observation and interpretation, with no fixed meaning.