Untitled 1980

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg made this photograph, using a camera, and film at an unknown date. Isn’t it funny how we make images? Taking things from the world. Schulz-Dornburg captures a world in grayscale, and there's something so resolute in that choice. It's a decision that makes us look harder. Look at the horizon line, slightly off, but grounding the whole piece. Then there are those two figures on donkeys, little interruptions in the landscape, a blip in time. I'm drawn to the texture of the earth in the midground, so much detail. The water in the foreground. Schulz-Dornburg’s images feel like they’re in conversation with someone like Bernd and Hilla Becher, but with a bit more melancholy. Art, you know, it’s all just one big conversation anyway, a way of seeing that we keep passing back and forth.