Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken before 1919

This is a postcard to Philip Zilcken by Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, and it's making me think about correspondence and artistic exchange. Imagine the hand moving across the card, the pen scratching as it forms each letter. The artist carefully considers how to express an idea or feeling with just a few words. Look at the ink, so dark against the cream surface, there is a real tactile quality to the message. The stamp becomes another layer of texture. I wonder what van 's-Gravesande and Zilcken were thinking as they composed and received this postcard. Did they bounce ideas off each other? Did one artist inspire the other? It's like overhearing a fragment of a conversation between two people, two artists. The postcard becomes a document of connection. And now here we are, years later, still looking and responding. Artists are in an ongoing dialogue, sharing and receiving ideas, always inspiring one another.