Amphitheater in Delphi before 1910

This photograph of the Amphitheater in Delphi was taken by Frédéric Boissonnas, sometime between the late 19th and early 20th century. I wonder if you have ever felt a bit like a ruin, or like you were looking at one? It seems that’s where Boissonnas must have been when he made this image. It's cool to see the amphitheater rendered like this. It reminds me that all marks, all records of being somewhere, are ruins of a sort, no matter how beautiful. So I get interested in the texture of the surface here. The haze and shadow. It’s as if someone has tried to scrub it away, and the landscape is fading, or has already faded into memory. It makes me think of how we hold onto the feeling of things, long after the details are gone. We are all just borrowing and lending to each other across time, maybe. Isn't it amazing how one creative act can set off so many others, rippling through time and space? This image invites us to consider art as a form of conversation with artists across time and place, inspiring each other's creativity in this ongoing exchange.