Acht en een halve maand oude baby Klaas Kleiterp in een kinderwagen in Batavia 1921

This sweet photograph shows eight-and-a-half-month-old Klaas Kleiterp in a baby carriage, snapped in Batavia by Klaas (I) Kleiterp. I love how the tones here create a little world, like a peek into someone's personal history. The surface of the image is so interesting—smooth in some areas, a little grainy in others—it's amazing how much feeling comes through despite that. It’s not just a record, it's a portal. Look at the shadow in the bottom of the picture, a dark contrast to the white frame around the image that almost seems to cut it off. What is being cut off? The future or the past? Thinking about someone like Gerhard Richter, who used photographs as source material, I think this photograph has the same type of impact and resonance. Both artists remind us that art is an ongoing conversation—about memory, about seeing, about feeling. It’s a process, not a destination, full of ambiguity and open to endless interpretation.