Molenstation en kalkoven gezien vanaf de Zuid. (October 1926.) 1926

This black and white photograph was taken in October 1926 by an anonymous artist. It's almost like a drawing, a study in shapes with a bird's nest of lines constructing something. I imagine the artist standing behind the camera in the field, trying to capture this structure which sits in the landscape. It has such an evocative and strange quality. The material aspect of photography is so interesting here; the image shows a texture, surface and physicality in how the artist captures tone and contrast. I wonder what it was like to be the anonymous artist and why they were drawn to the strange tower construction with the tall, thin metal poles on either side. It makes me think about all the images we make and how artists build on each other’s observations, sharing ways of seeing the world. In this way, art-making is a form of embodied expression, always in conversation and open to multiple interpretations.