Betonbrug over de Enimrivier in aanbouw 1921 - 1922

This vintage photograph shows a concrete bridge under construction over the Enim River. It's by an anonymous artist, which somehow only makes it even more fascinating. The tones here are muted – grayscale, almost dreamy – which brings out this wonderful sense of how things are made, like the image itself is being constructed. The eye is drawn to the way the bridge is suspended; it's not quite finished, but there is also the landscape in the background with trees. I love how it captures a moment in time, like those dark lines of the train tracks might just disappear, and the bridge becomes a fixed object. It's like looking at a Diebenkorn, these soft colours and horizontal lines - a dialogue between the organic and the constructed. It leaves you questioning how we perceive reality, and our role in shaping it. Art’s like that – always in progress, never really finished, just like this bridge.