Rejsedagbog. Firenze 1846

This page from Johan Thomas Lundbye's travel journal, dating from around 1845, presents a dense field of handwritten script. The arrangement of text creates a visual rhythm, with lines of varying length and spacing forming abstract patterns across the page. The script itself functions as a kind of drawing, where the pressure and flow of the pen evoke a sense of the artist’s presence and immediacy. Lundbye's journal becomes a site where language transcends its communicative function, transforming into a visual texture. This interplay between text and image challenges the traditional hierarchy between linguistic meaning and visual form. The act of writing embodies a form of mark-making that destabilizes fixed meanings. It becomes an open field for interpretation, where the materiality of language takes precedence. This invites us to consider how meaning is constructed not only through what is written but also how it is visually represented.