Brug over de Wenih Rongka 1903 - 1913

This photograph shows a bridge over the Wenih Rongka, snapped by an anonymous artist. I like to imagine they set up their camera and waited for the right moment to capture the scene before them. It's easy to look at this image as just a record of a place and time, but I see it as something more. It’s an inquiry into how we move through the world, how we connect spaces and people. The bridge itself is a gesture, an intention made real with wood and stone. There's a dialogue happening here, I think. Between the artist and the landscape, between the people who built the bridge and those who will cross it. It reminds me of how painters build up layers of color and texture, each stroke a response to what came before, all of them moving towards a kind of connection that wasn’t there before. Artists are always in conversation, borrowing, and riffing off one another, across time and place. Each artwork is a step forward, a new way of seeing, feeling, and experiencing the world.