Gezicht op daken en de stompe toren van de St. Martinuskerk te Woudrichem c. 1900 - 1910

This photograph of rooftops and a church tower was captured by G. Hidderley using techniques unavailable today. Just imagine the act of painting, how an artwork comes into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with the artist and what it must have been like to create this piece. What might they have been thinking when they made it? The tower looms in the background, but the foreground shows the roofs of buildings that are closer to the viewer. The tiled roofs are very textured, with many small squares, whilst the tower is smooth and tall. I'm thinking about how this image relates to other painters. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Photography, like painting, is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meanings.