Brief aan Jan Veth Possibly 1904 - 1919

Wally Moes wrote this letter to Jan Veth. The handwriting sprawls across the page, making a black, linear web, dense and rhythmic. I imagine Wally, pen in hand, hunched over the paper, lost in thought, each stroke a deliberate act of translation. The pressure of the pen, the flow of ink, the scratching sound—it’s all so intimate. The text becomes a topography of feeling, a record of the artist's interiority, a document of an intimate conversation. I wonder what she was thinking, what she was feeling as she wrote these words. Was it a struggle? A release? This letter reminds me of the paintings of Cy Twombly. In his work, too, text and mark-making merge, blurring the line between writing and drawing. Artists are always in conversation, echoing and responding to each other across time. And each mark is a gesture, a record of a body in motion, an invitation to imagine, to feel, to connect.