Document betreffende Willem Witjens Possibly 1932 - 1937

This document regarding Willem Witjens looks like it was made with ink on paper at some point in the early twentieth century. You can see the hand moving across the page, trying to capture the essence of something, or at least some facts about someone. I find myself sympathizing with the person making the inscription. It seems so official, but each letter is drawn from the hand, a simple gesture, like a brushstroke. I wonder if they knew that their mark making would last this long. Did they think anyone would care? The weight of history in this one act of writing… maybe it’s like when I’m painting and I make a tiny mark. I don’t know what it means, but it starts something. It's a conversation across time, each mark responding to the one before, all the way back to cave paintings! We’re always talking to each other and we don’t even know it.