Brief aan A. van der Boom Possibly 1930 - 1939

This is a letter to A. van der Boom, written in 1930 by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst; a flurry of thought captured in ink. The handwriting, a dance of dark lines on pale paper, feels intimate and immediate. The density of the text creates a kind of textured surface, a visual field as much as a message. It's like looking at a landscape painting, where the details blur into an overall impression. I imagine the artist hunched over the page, the pen scratching, each stroke a decision, a feeling made visible. See how certain words are emphasized with a heavier hand, almost like a painter layering on thick impasto? This reminds me of Cy Twombly's scrawled paintings, where language and gesture merge into a beautiful, chaotic whole. Both artists seem to embrace the messiness of thought, the way ideas can tumble out in a rush, incomplete but full of energy. It’s a reminder that art, in all its forms, is a conversation, a reaching out, a sharing of something deeply human.