Plattegrond van een huis 1890 - 1946

Here's Cornelis Vreedenburgh's plan of a house, made with what looks like a pencil on paper. Looking at this drawing, I think about how mapping or planning a space becomes a form of mark-making. I'm struck by the provisional nature of this sketch, the delicacy of the lines and how Vreedenburgh seems to be thinking through the relationships of spaces, adjusting and correcting his lines as he goes. You can see him working out a problem here! I love the tentative quality of the plan, like he's imagining possibilities, not dictating absolutes. It reminds me of the architect Louis Kahn, who would talk about asking a brick what it wanted to be. Vreedenburgh seems to be asking the same of these walls. Like, how do we want to live? What kind of home can this be? And how can it all come together? It's a really intimate peek into the artist's process and thinking, and it's a reminder that creativity often involves exploration, uncertainty, and constant refinement.