Loentje en Frank Furnée in een gondel en bij het Dogepaleis, in Venetië 1928

This is a photo album page with three black and white photographs of Loentje and Frank Furnée in Venice, by Carolina Onnen. Imagine her there, trying to capture the essence of a moment. The grainy texture and tonal range is limited, the gray tones are all pushed up against each other, which gives the images a certain feeling of light. I wonder if the artist felt herself as a painter and was thinking about photography in relationship to painting. I feel the immediacy of the moment, like a memory. It’s a snapshot of life, an attempt to freeze a moment in time. I suppose all artists are magpies, collecting fragments and bits of the world around them, and trying to make sense of it all. We make art to understand our life.