Brief aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1922

Vittorio Pica dashed off this letter to Philip Zilcken with ink on paper. Look at that cursive! You know, handwriting is like abstract art; it’s a direct trace of the body, and its rhythms. In this note, the loops and strokes create a kind of dance across the page. It's easy to imagine the artist in the act of writing, hand moving, thoughts flowing, and how physical writing is. The pressure of the pen, the drag of the ink… It makes you wonder, what was so pressing that it needed to be recorded and sent? The whole composition reminds me of Cy Twombly, not just because of the script-like marks, but because it embraces this raw, unfiltered expression. It's a little window into the artist's mind, unedited and wonderfully imperfect. Art's not about perfection, right? It’s about the messy, beautiful process of making.