Brief aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1921

Here we have a letter, likely written with a fountain pen in 1921 by Maurice Maeterlinck to Philip Zilcken. The hand sweeps across the page in dark blue, full of urgency and care. Imagine Maeterlinck's hand moving across the page, each word a deliberate stroke, a dance of intellect and emotion. I love how handwriting captures something so human and idiosyncratic. The pressure of the pen, the slant of the letters. You can sense the writer's energy and mood. The act of writing, like painting, becomes a record of a performance. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbled paintings, where writing blurs into abstraction. Both Maeterlinck and Twombly share an interest in process and mark-making to evoke emotion, memory, and a sense of fleeting moments. This letter, like a painting, invites us to contemplate the passage of time and the enduring power of human connection.