Restanten van een Gallo-Romeins theater in Arles 1903

This is Delizy’s photograph of the Restanten van een Gallo-Romeins theater in Arles, made with photography. You know, I think of photography as a kind of time-based art: it captures a specific moment, but it also invites us to consider the passage of time and the processes of change. Here, the muted tones evoke a sense of history and antiquity. The surface of the photograph has this incredible texture, almost like it's been aged and weathered. You can see the way the light catches the stone and brick, creating these subtle gradations of tone and shadow. The way the ancient theater is juxtaposed with the modern buildings in the background creates this really interesting tension. It's like the past and the present are existing side by side, informing each other. Think about an artist like Robert Smithson, who was also really interested in the relationship between landscape, time, and entropy. Smithson, like Delizy, invites us to contemplate the cyclical nature of history.