Bomen 1903

Erwin Raupp made this photograph, ‘Bomen,’ and I see two landscape images reproduced in a book. On the left, two timber framed houses sit to either side of a path that leads to a road. On the right, a line of bare trees with a path alongside them disappear from view. I can only imagine what it was like for Erwin Raupp to wander those bare winter landscapes. What was he thinking when he made it? I respond to artworks in metaphorical, emotional, and creative ways. I think here about that path we are invited to follow through both images, and the light that filters through the trees in the right hand image. The composition draws the eye through the work, creating a sense of depth, whilst emphasising the materiality of the paper it’s printed on. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting is a form of embodied expression that embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.