Untitled 1930

This photograph by Piet Zwart captures the interior of a timber warehouse, and it really gets me thinking about construction, literally and metaphorically. Just imagine Zwart here, thinking about how the image comes into being, shifting and emerging through light and shadow. The stacks of wood, so many straight lines, create this feeling of organized chaos, right? Like, each piece is just waiting to become something else. I wonder if he thought about the potential of each plank? It makes me think about the materials we use as artists. Paint, wood, film; they’re not just stuff, they're potential, waiting for us to give them meaning. We're always in conversation with other artists across time, finding inspiration, exchanging ideas. It's embodied expression, and it’s open to so many different interpretations.