Bomen by Eustave Young

Bomen before 1903

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print, photography, gelatin-silver-print

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tree

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aged paper

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still-life-photography

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homemade paper

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paper non-digital material

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paperlike

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print

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landscape

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photography

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personal sketchbook

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journal

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fading type

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gelatin-silver-print

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thick font

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handwritten font

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modernism

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historical font

Dimensions: height 139 mm, width 75 mm

Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain

This photograph, Bomen, captured by Eustave Young, is printed on a page in a book. The whole image is blue, with very light trees sitting on dark ground. What a strange choice. The process becomes the story here. The ink reminds me of cyanotypes, or maybe blueprints - the way the artist has allowed the material properties of the printmaking process to influence the final image. It's like the trees are emerging from a dream, the dark, inky ground solidifying into reality. I find myself thinking about Gerhard Richter’s blurry photos and how he tried to find a universal language that did not have any culture associated with it. This is so different. It shows us something we all know. Trees. And it looks like nothing else. Art isn't just about what you see; it's about how you see. This work invites us to see the world with new eyes and find beauty in the unexpected.

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