Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten: eindpunt van de (electriciteits)lijn vanaf de Boulder Dam 1936

This photograph, taken by Wouter Cool, zeroes in on Los Angeles, California, capturing the endpoint of the electricity line from the Boulder Dam. It’s got this graphic quality. The building feels so solid and still, and yet there’s this buzz of energy implied, right? Like, the end of a power line. But the photograph itself is so quiet, so composed. I'm really struck by the formality of the architecture against the casualness of the foliage. It's an interesting contrast. Look at the shadows, how they carve out the forms. There’s something about the way the light falls that makes me think of Edward Hopper – this stark, almost surreal clarity. It's a slice of time, an end point but also a beginning, charged with potential, both silent and humming with unseen power. That push and pull, that tension between the visible and the invisible, it's what makes this photograph resonate.