Schetsblad met twee studies van een militair en een schets van een wapen 1872 - 1927

This is Louis Charles Bombled's sheet of sketches with two studies of a military figure and a drawing of a weapon. Notice how the artist uses a delicate web of lines to capture the likenesses and details. In this study, the linear quality and skeletal structure of the image create a sense of provisionality, as if we are seeing the bare bones of an idea rather than a fully fleshed-out form. Bombled seems less concerned with illusionism than with the act of visual thinking itself. Look at how the composition is not about a single, unified image, but rather about a constellation of related elements. There is a fragmentation and multiplicity that resists any singular interpretation. The drawing becomes a site where meanings are produced and destabilized. The lines work to unsettle our expectations of coherence and stability in representation.