Oorlogsmonument ter nagedachtenis van een slag tijdens de Tweede Boerenoorlog in Zuid-Afrika 1901

This stereograph, made by Underwood & Underwood, captures a war monument commemorating a battle during the Second Boer War in South Africa. It’s an obelisk of stacked stones, and I imagine the effort to place each rock, one by one, constructing this landmark against the open landscape. I wonder what the photographer felt as they framed this shot. Were they thinking about the weight of history, or were they simply interested in documenting a scene? Perhaps they were considering how the monument would stand against the test of time, a silent witness to human conflict. There's something about the monument's shape that pulls your eye upward. It's like a visual echo of the past, pointing towards the sky and maybe even the future. You can almost feel the weight of the stones and the stories they hold. And isn’t that what art's all about—finding new ways to see, think, and feel?