Colorado Springs, Colorado Possibly 1969 - 1984

This is Robert Adams’ photograph ‘Colorado Springs, Colorado’. Imagine Adams there, camera in hand, standing on this dusty lot, framing his shot. The house under construction rises from the parched earth. There is a tension in the image, the bare bones of a future home against the stark, open landscape. You have the sense of potential, like the structure is taking shape. It's about seeing beauty, or at least interest, in the in-between spaces. The composition almost feels like a painting, with its careful arrangement of lines and shapes. It reminds you that all artists are in dialogue with each other, building on what's come before. Each photograph, each painting, is a kind of conversation, a way of seeing and thinking that expands our own.