Twee foto's van een tuin en moestuin in Wanasari 1909

These two photographs of a garden and vegetable patch in Wanasari were captured by Carolina Onnen. It is 1909, and I am wondering what the story of the garden is. I’m wondering about the light, because a photo of a garden is always a gesture toward light, am I right? Sunlight is a painter's muse, you know? Light and landscape, they can be endlessly inspiring. I can see Onnen in the garden, trying to compose the landscape through the camera lens. I like how these photographs are pasted onto a page, it brings an informal sense of play and reminds us of the artistic process. I feel like there is an embodied presence, and I'm trying to figure out how that presence comes into being, and what kind of conversation is happening.