This postcard was created in 1936 by Leo Gestel, likely using ink on paper. I'm drawn to the handwritten quality; the marks are so immediate and personal. The texture comes from the ink bleeding slightly into the paper, it's all curves and sharp angles, like a dance across the surface. Look at how certain letters loop back on themselves! It's as if each word is a tiny drawing, a little abstract expression. The whole thing has this raw, unfiltered energy, like the artist is thinking aloud on paper. Gestel seems to be having a conversation with the recipients, Jan Ponstijn and Henriëtte Johanna Petronella van Hilten; the art becomes a space for connection, a shared moment captured in ink. I am reminded of Cy Twombly, whose painterly scrawls similarly blur the line between writing and image, inviting us to get lost in the sheer joy of mark-making. For Gestel, as for Twombly, art is not about perfection, but about the messy, beautiful process of thinking and feeling.