Wijngaard Waterhof in Kaapstad 1968

These photographs by Willem Jacob van den Berg seem to be part of a collection and invite a gentle, process-oriented gaze. Here, in this album page, there’s a beautiful tension between the softness of the color photography, the pale blue of the album page, and the texture of the paper itself. The images are glued squarely, but the handwritten inscription has an appealing looseness. It speaks to how artists make choices, sometimes precise, sometimes playful. The page operates a bit like a map, leading the eye to the steps, the path, the garden, the trees, and beyond. The presentation feels like a kind of diaristic collage, a way of seeing the world and organizing memories. Like the painter Fairfield Porter, Willem Jacob van den Berg finds the extraordinary in the everyday. It reminds us that art is not just about grand statements, but about the subtle, ongoing conversations we have with the world around us. It's about embracing ambiguity and finding beauty in the process.