Geschilderd plafond in Noordeinde 140 te Den Haag 1912

This ceiling at Noordeinde 140 in The Hague, was painted by an anonymous artist. Looking at the way the light washes across the fresco, I can’t help but think of artmaking as a conversation with light itself. The sepia tones create a kind of dreamscape, and even though the image is a photograph, you can almost feel the texture of the plaster, the slight roughness under the brush. It’s like the artist wanted to capture not just figures but an atmosphere. There's a really interesting contrast between the defined architectural elements and the more ethereal, floating figures in the center. That tension between structure and freedom, it’s a fundamental part of painting. I am reminded of Tiepolo’s ceilings, with the way figures seem to tumble out of the sky. Art is never created in a vacuum, but is an exchange of ideas across time, and as an artist it feels right to embrace ambiguity.