Vrouw 1941 - 1942

This is a photo album with black and white photographs stuck onto dark grey paper. Looking at the way the photographs are placed, with their varying sizes and jagged edges, I get a sense of someone piecing together fragments of life. I imagine the person who made this album, carefully selecting each image, each memory, deciding where to stick them down, like someone creating a visual diary or a scrapbook of their past. I feel like I can sense them wondering, just like I do when I work on a canvas, what to include, how to arrange it all, and what story it will tell. The material is simple—paper, photographs, glue—but the act of arranging and organizing them transforms those basic materials into something deeply personal and evocative. It reminds me that art can be found in everyday life, in the simple act of collecting and arranging memories. This album, like a painting, becomes a form of embodied expression, embracing the ambiguity and uncertainty of life.