Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 17 verso 1875 - 1934

This chalk transfer drawing was made by Isaac Israels, sometime around the late 19th or early 20th century. Israels seems to have worked through touch and feel, the way he pressed the original drawing onto this sheet. You can sense the intimacy of the process. It's kind of like a soft, smudgy dance between two surfaces. The texture is amazing, right? It's like looking at a ghost of an image, a faint memory. Look how the chalk sticks in some places and fades in others, creating this incredible depth. There’s something so beautiful about the limitations of the process; it embraces chance, accidents. The more I look, the more I see echoes of other artists who explored similar terrain, like Cy Twombly, who also reveled in the beauty of the imperfect mark. It's like they're all having this conversation across time, each adding their own voice to the mix. Art is never a solo act.