Gezicht op Kasteel Bronkhorst te Steenderen 1901

This faded photograph of Gezicht op Kasteel Bronkhorst te Steenderen, was produced with a camera, but we don't know when or by whom. It's more a feeling than a sharp image. I love how the tones here feel so soft. It’s like the whole scene is breathing. Look at the trees, they seem to dissolve into the sky. The castle itself is solid, but even that has a hazy quality. The photographer wasn't trying to show every detail. They were after something else, a mood, a memory. It makes me think about how we see things and what we choose to remember. Do we recall every brick in the building, or just the feeling of being there? It reminds me of the painter Gerhard Richter, how he used photography as a starting point for his paintings. He blurred the images so you could see them and not see them, all at once. Anyway, art isn't about answers, it's about questions.