Thea en Joanna Diepenbrock c. 1895 - 1925

This image by W.G. Hondius van den Broek captures Thea and Joanna Diepenbrock. It's small, just 130 mm high, 180 mm wide. I can only imagine what it must have been like to create this image. What would they have been thinking when they made it? The artist is capturing childhood but in reverse; the surface and the world are inverted, the children are frozen in time. What is real and what is not becomes a blur of possibilities, a world of uncertainty opens. I find myself thinking about what it would have been like to be a painter at that moment. I can feel how it all comes together, the surface and the world becoming one. It’s like they're in conversation, bouncing ideas off each other. It’s a total exchange of ideas and feelings, a real collaboration of art.