Gordijn en een architectuurstudie c. 1905 - 1906

This is a graphite on paper work, "Gordijn en een architectuurstudie" by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. What I love is how this drawing gives us access to the artist’s thinking, his process. It’s not about a finished image, it's about the exploration of ideas. The marks here are tentative, searching. See that flurry of lines at the bottom, like a scribble of a curtain, or the careful geometric shapes to the left? Each mark is a step in a thought process, a visual note. The texture of the paper shows through, becoming part of the drawing itself. It’s honest, immediate. The way the different elements – the architectural study, the curtain detail – coexist on the page suggests a mind at work, making connections, layering ideas. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s sketches, where the beauty lies in the rawness and the open-endedness. Like Cachet’s work, it is more about the gesture and the search than any kind of resolution.