Tidstavle over H.C. Andersens liv 1866-1844 1930 - 1938

This page, created by Niels Larsen Stevns, is from a sketchbook or notebook and is filled with handwritten text in a delicate, cursive script, using what looks like a fine-tipped pen and ink. What's striking is the immediacy and intimacy of this act of transcription. The words are carefully placed, yet there’s a sense of fluidity and spontaneity, as if the artist is thinking and writing simultaneously. Look at the way the lines curve and bend, almost dancing across the page. Each stroke seems to record the movement of the artist’s hand, preserving a fleeting moment in time. Think of artists like Cy Twombly, who also blurred the lines between writing and drawing. Like Twombly, Stevns invites us to slow down and contemplate the act of making, to appreciate the beauty of imperfection and the poetry of the everyday. For both artists, art becomes a way of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world, one careful mark at a time.