Interieur van het woonhuis van de familie Uhlenbeck aan de Bothalaan in Hilversum, links een slaapkamer 1911 - 1912

This sepia photograph captures a bedroom and living area in the Uhlenbeck family home in Hilversum, through Loentje Onnen's eye. I'm thinking about Onnen carefully composing this shot. It's so quiet. The light is filtering in, hitting that bedspread just so, softening the hard edges of the furniture. I wonder if she arranged those items on the sideboard herself? I think she was interested in capturing the feeling of a home, a kind of world in itself. Did she choose this angle to show how lived-in and cozy the rooms were? I bet she moved that chair just a bit to the left, fussing over the details. In the adjacent shot, there is something so sweet and intimate about those miniature framed pictures on the wall. They remind me that we artists, no matter the medium, are all just trying to capture something real, even when we end up making something completely new.