Ontwerpen voor een ring 1913

Mathieu Lauweriks made this ring design on paper, but who knows when? It’s kind of floating in time. You can feel the artist’s hand moving across the page, experimenting and playing with different shapes and forms for the rings. Some are simple and elegant, while others are more elaborate, with swirling lines and geometric patterns. I feel like he was thinking about balance and harmony. Look at the dark ring on the bottom left. It's weighty somehow, but is it too heavy? I can almost feel the artist puzzling over it. I imagine that Mathieu Lauweriks looked at the work of other artists, riffing off each other’s creativity and vision. It reminds me that we’re all in conversation with each other, across time and space. We are inspiring and challenging each other to see the world in new and different ways. We embrace the ambiguity and uncertainty of painting, which always allows for multiple interpretations.