Mary posing with sculpture--Santa Cruz, California 1956

This gelatin silver print, made by Robert Frank, shows Mary posing with a sculpture in Santa Cruz, California. I see it as a snapshot, like a moment grabbed from real life – there's Mary, casually leaning on a classical sculpture, almost like they’re old friends. Frank might have seen something in that contrast, the old and the new, the art and the everyday. I can imagine him thinking about how we interact with the things we make, how they become part of our lives. And the light, it’s so soft, it makes everything feel a little dreamy, a little timeless. It reminds me of other photographers who play with reality and fiction, like Jeff Wall, who stages these elaborate scenes that look like they just happened. It's all a big conversation, each artist adding their voice. Ultimately, the most exciting thing about art is that there are no right answers, just different ways of seeing the world.