Tree Set 2 c. 1924

Alfred Stieglitz made this gelatin silver print, Tree Set 2, and, you know, I'm immediately thinking about how photography, like painting, is a conversation with the world. It's not just about capturing an image, but about framing a feeling, a way of seeing. The way the bare branches reach up into that moody sky, it's like Stieglitz was trying to capture something beyond the literal tree. Maybe he was thinking about resilience, about how life persists even when it looks like everything's stripped bare. Painters and photographers, we're all just trying to make sense of the world, one image at a time. Each piece builds on the last, and it’s like we're talking to each other across time, borrowing ideas, pushing back, and finding our own way to speak.