Gezicht op het Fort van Sisteron 1903

This image of the Fort of Sisteron was captured by Delizy using photography, though I wonder what kind. Look at the hues, they’re beautifully aged. The sepia tones and panoramic composition create a real sense of monumentality, but there's also something so delicate and ephemeral about the image; it feels like a faded memory. See how the fort rises out of the landscape, almost like a natural extension of the rock? It reminds me a bit of Cezanne, his way of collapsing form and ground and the sense of a lived and laboured mark, the layers of history, visible in the textures of the stone. The fort is like a physical embodiment of time. In the end, art is like that too, an ongoing dialogue across time and space, embracing ambiguity and multiple interpretations.