Brief aan August Allebé Possibly 1901 - 1911

Here’s a letter to August Allebé, likely from around 1907, made with ink on paper. Look at how the lines of the writing dance and weave across the page, light in some areas, darker in others. It's like a little performance, a dance of words. I’m really drawn to the way the ink pools and bleeds in certain areas, especially in the salutation, ‘Geachte Heer Allebé’. It gives the writing a certain weight, a physicality that makes it feel almost sculptural. You can almost feel the pressure of the pen on the page, the artist's hand moving across the surface. It reminds me that art, like writing, is an embodied act, a way of making thoughts and feelings visible in the world. Thinking about other artists, I see echoes of Cy Twombly’s scribbled lines, or even the raw, expressive energy of someone like Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art is an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas and influences across time, and this letter is just one small, but beautiful, contribution to that conversation.