Landschap met man en twee karren met hakhout 1924

Willem de Zwart made this etching, "Landschap met man en twee karren met hakhout," using thin lines to create a whole world. It looks like a quick sketch, but it has a complete sense of place. What gets me is the material, it's an etching, so it's all about the incised line, and that feeling of pressure that the artist applied to make the image. Look closely at the trees, how they form a dark canopy, with scribbly marks creating the density of the leaves. Those lines pull the eye back into the distance, creating depth. The road with the man and carts seems to be going somewhere, like an idea in motion. It reminds me of early Corot, but with a looser touch, less concerned with capturing detail than with capturing an emotion. Art, like life, is a journey, not a destination, right?