Udkast til statuettegruppe 1915 - 1924

Gudrun Traustedt made this sketch for a statuette group with pencil on paper. It’s all about the line here, isn’t it? You can almost see her hand moving across the page, searching for the form. The lines are tentative, like she's feeling her way through the dark. Look at the way the figures emerge from the ground, all scratchy and raw. The texture of the paper is part of the drawing; it's not trying to hide anything. It’s like she's letting us in on her process. It’s not about perfection. I think of artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker, who explored similar themes of womanhood and the body with such honesty and vulnerability. There's a beautiful awkwardness to this drawing. It reminds us that art is not about having all the answers, it is about embracing the questions.