Two men beside a woodland campfire, one reclining beneath a branch shelter and one seated upright, with sparks rising above the flames.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Josephine Pomeroy Hendrick, in the name of Henry Keney Pomeroy, 1927. 27.181.

Museum record · Public Domain / The Met Open Access (CC0)

Winslow Homer

Camp Fire

1880 · Oil on canvas

The painting also appears at the opening of Please Start From Here.

Project response, not artist intention. The fire offers a shared place, but the two people occupy it differently. That spoke to us as an invitation to begin together without assuming the same view.

Source and viewing copies

The unchanged museum JPEG is retained locally. Smaller full-frame viewing copies are used for display. No crop, retouch or generative alteration.

Image source and viewing-copy details · Artist and source note on the opening