Rydultowy II (Anna), Poland 2008

This is a landscape photograph called Rydultowy II (Anna), Poland by Witho Worms. It’s a brown picture, a sepia-toned world of rolling hills, a dirt road cutting through. I wonder what it was like for Worms to be there, camera in hand, composing this scene. I imagine him drawn to the quiet, the somber mood. There’s a stillness, a weight to the earth. The road, carved by tires and time, leads our eye into the distance. The way the light catches the ridges of the hills, it almost feels like a drawing. It makes you think of other artists, photographers, and painters who have looked at landscapes, trying to capture not just what’s there, but the feeling of a place. Artists are always in conversation, aren’t they? Each one building on what came before, seeing the world anew and showing it back to us.