Notities c. 1930

This page of notes was made by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet; it's a peek into the artist’s mind, a real stream-of-consciousness kind of piece. I’m immediately drawn to the texture here—the way the ink sits on the page. You can almost feel the nib scratching across the paper. The marks aren’t precious; they’re direct, honest, and unedited. Artmaking is so often about this kind of process, the immediacy of thought becoming a physical thing. There’s something really intimate about seeing an artist’s raw thoughts like this, like reading someone’s diary. I keep coming back to the word ‘Rangoon’ scrawled across the page – it’s almost like a visual anchor. The other words swirl around it, these fleeting ideas and impressions. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbled canvases, the way he transformed writing into pure gesture. It's all about the act of thinking, of recording those fleeting thoughts and impressions. It’s a reminder that art doesn’t always have to be polished and perfect; it can be messy, ambiguous, and still full of meaning.