Gezicht op een bivak 1903 - 1913

This is an anonymous, undated photograph, called "Gezicht op een bivak." When I look at it, I'm thinking about the artist and the setting they might have been in. They might have been trying to capture the subtle tones of the landscape, like a muted symphony of beiges and browns. I wonder if they thought about the surface and texture that they were creating as they tried to frame the houses, the field, and the trees. Maybe they had a similar feeling to the way I smear paint around on my canvases, trying to find the hidden forms. It’s kind of nice to think of artists across time, all wrestling with similar questions, trying to make sense of what they see and feel and I bet that somewhere, another artist might be working on something, and in a hundred years, someone will be standing in front of it, wondering what they were thinking too.