Plantage Accaribo 1913 - 1930

This small glass slide, Plantage Accaribo, shows us a moment captured by Theodoor Brouwers, a Dutch artist, sometime between 1875 and 1932. The scene is a dense landscape, two figures stand amidst the foliage, but I find myself drawn to the way Brouwers handled the light. Imagine him, carefully adjusting his lens, trying to capture the depth of the forest. You see the way the light filters through the trees, creating a play of shadows that both obscures and reveals. It's like a dance between presence and absence. The way the shadows are almost etched into the glass – it speaks to a search for definition, a desire to capture the essence of this place. It reminds me of the way landscape painters like Van Gogh tried to capture the feeling of being in nature, not just the look of it. Artists are always looking, always trying to make sense of the world around them, and then making something new out of it. It’s like we’re all having a conversation across time, inspiring each other to see things in new ways.