Gebouwen van Schule Schloss Salem aan het water c. 1929

This old photograph shows the Schule Schloss Salem buildings by the water, but we don't know who made it or exactly when. The buildings are monumental, caught in a web of wintry branches, with pale light reflecting off the water's surface. I can imagine this photographer searching for a way to express the scale of the structure. It’s a constant dialogue when you are making, this call and response between the idea and the realization. The contrast between the stone and the bare trees makes me think about growth and decay, life and death, the way everything carries on. Think about all the photographs that have been taken by people we don't know over the years. This feels like a shared process of vision, a thread through time connecting artists, known and unknown, each building on the work of those who came before.