François Halard’s Conversation with Claude began at Giverny, in Normandy, France, in the garden Claude Monet made his own and painted for more than thirty years. Halard came with a Polaroid camera. The images he made there were later scanned, enlarged, cropped and painted by hand. In the process, the photograph becomes something less certain: part image, part painting, part memory of the moment in which it was made. Giverny is not an ordinary landscape. It is a landscape already shaped by another artist’s way of seeing. Monet planted it, composed it, waited for it, and returned to it again and again.