Brief aan Willem Bogtman Possibly 1925 - 1928

This letter, 'Brief aan Willem Bogtman,' was written in 1925 by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst with a pen, it looks like. The marks are very personal. It's like a dance across the page, right? A stream of consciousness, or maybe a river of thought. Look at how the words bunch together and then spread out. There's a rhythm, a kind of visual music. Some strokes are dark and heavy, others light and fleeting. It’s about process, about the hand moving and thinking at the same time. The texture of the ink on the paper is so delicate, almost like a whisper. You can almost feel the nib scratching across the surface. There’s an intimacy here, like we're eavesdropping on a private conversation. It reminds me a little of Cy Twombly, the way he made writing into art, a kind of beautiful, illegible poetry. It's about feeling more than reading, you know?