Rocks at Ploumenach, Brittany 1936

Eileen Agar captured "Rocks at Ploumenach, Brittany" in a photograph that compels us with its stark contrasts and monolithic forms. The composition is dominated by massive rock formations, their surfaces sculpted by time and weather, rendered in gradations of grey. Agar's photographic eye finds surrealist potential within the natural world. She plays with scale and perspective, the rocks looming as though they were monumental sculptures. The light and shadow emphasize the texture of the stone, giving them a tactile presence. These rocks, transformed through Agar’s lens, destabilize our perception. They are both landscape and object, natural and constructed. Agar captures not just the visual appearance but the underlying structures that shape our experience of the world, inviting us to find the extraordinary within the ordinary.