Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 18 verso c. 1886 - 1934

Isaac Israels made this chalk drawing at the Rijksmuseum. It is a print of a chalk drawing, a ghost, and I love how it shows the process of image making. The image is so light, so ephemeral, and I wonder what the original chalk drawing was like. You know, the physicality of chalk is so interesting, it's such a soft and delicate material. In this piece you can see the texture of the paper coming through, and the ghostly traces of the chalk almost disappear into the surface, which is so cool. There’s this mark, a vertical line on the right side of the image, where the chalk seems to have been smudged, and it’s like a subtle reminder of the artist’s hand. This feels like it could be a Cy Twombly sketch, you know? It's like a conversation between artists across time. Anyway, it's a really beautiful piece, a kind of quiet invitation to think about art as a process, and images as echoes of something that came before.