Deur en decoratieve patronen c. 1916 - 1945

This page of drawings with "Deur en decoratieve patronen," or "Door and decorative patterns" by Reijer Stolk is a wonderful peek into an artist's process. It looks like it was made with graphite, or maybe a soft pencil, on paper. I love sketchbooks; they're like a visual record of thinking. Look at the repeating shapes, the way Stolk is playing with squares and triangles, spirals within squares. It’s like he's exploring how a simple form can morph and change. There are notations in the margins, too, scribbled ideas alongside the drawings themselves. The bottom triangles remind me of the kind of pattern you might see in a textile design, while the larger square shapes seem architectural, like the decoration of a doorway, as the title suggests. Artists like Hilma af Klint also explored geometric abstraction at this time, searching for ways that simple shapes could express complex ideas.