Interieur van de Hervormde Kerk te Sleen 1903

This anonymous photograph captures the Interior of the Hervormde Kerk te Sleen. It looks like it was created as part of a process for the care of monuments. The sepia tones lend an atmosphere of reverence, a sense of stepping back in time, where every mark or tone feels like a memory. The photograph reveals the church's architectural bones, with its soaring arches and imposing columns. It makes me think of a drawing, where the artist is trying to capture the essence of the place with a minimum of means, an economy of line, or in this case, of light and shadow. Look how the light, or absence of it, sculpts the space, creating depth and volume. The columns, stark and almost abstract in their simplicity, remind me of Agnes Martin’s grids, reduced to the essential. It's an image about seeing, about the dialogue between light and form, surface and depth.