Bloemen van honderd werelden 1909

This book, "Flowers of a Hundred Worlds", was made by Kamisaka Sekka, a Japanese artist who lived from 1866 to 1942. Just look at those gestural marks and the muted colour palette! I wonder about the act of painting itself when Sekka made this - all those shifts, trials, errors, and intuitions that must have come up. I really sympathise with the artist here. What must it have been like? What was Sekka thinking? When I think about the material aspects of the painting, the texture and the surface really stand out. It gives me emotional and intellectual resonances. Each gesture communicates feeling, intention, and meaning. What's fascinating is how artists are in an ongoing conversation, exchanging ideas across time. It's like they're inspiring each other's creativity. And that's the thing about painting – it's all about embodied expression, where ambiguity and uncertainty are not enemies. There are multiple interpretations, not just one fixed reading.