Fotoreproductie van een fotogram van een huis met daarvoor twee kinderen die kippen voeren door Alfred Horsley Hinton before 1908

Here we have a photogram, made at an unknown date by an anonymous artist, of a house with two kids feeding chickens. Look at the way the tones move across the page, from light to dark, capturing the essence of a sun-drenched afternoon. The artist coaxes such a range of values from this limited palette. It's like watching a dance of light and shadow, each mark deliberately placed to create depth and texture. Notice how the granular texture of the medium gives the whole scene a dreamy, almost ethereal quality. Your eyes are drawn to the details – the fuzzy outlines of the chickens pecking at the ground, the way the light catches the roof of the house in the distance. It's as if the artist is inviting us to pause and consider the beauty of the everyday, transforming something ordinary into something extraordinary. It makes me think of Gerhard Richter's blurred photographs, in the way they capture a sense of transience and the passage of time. Art, after all, is just one long, ongoing conversation, isn't it?