Wintersportvakantie in Semmering, Oostenrijk Possibly 1930 - 1932

This is a black and white page from an album by Berti Hoppe, titled "Wintersportvakantie in Semmering, Oostenrijk". It's a quiet world, this album page, filled with images of the Austrian landscape. I think of Hoppe, arranging the images, deciding where each should go in relation to the others. What kind of conversation did he hope to create? Is it about the relationship between the mountains and the hotels? The built and unbuilt landscape? Or is it about something else entirely, something that these stark, wintry scenes hint at but never fully reveal? I feel a kinship with artists of any kind, even someone who is just arranging photographs on a page. Whether it's a photograph, a painting, or an album page, it's all about the way one mark relates to another, what one thing does to the thing next to it. How the artist is making the world and showing the world how to think. It's this conversation through space and time that makes art so endlessly fascinating.