Prentbriefkaart aan Philip Zilcken before 1923

This postcard to Philip Zilcken by Rose Imel is, well, a postcard! It's this funny little rectangle covered in handwriting and stamps – like a tiny burst of someone's life, sent through the mail. Look at those looping lines, those scribbled addresses. You can almost feel the hand moving across the surface, figuring things out as it goes. The stamp with the portrait feels so formal, so official, next to the casual sprawl of the writing. The ink is thin and faded, but the gestures are bold. It's like peeking into a conversation, a moment caught in time. The smudges and blurs are almost like pentimento, those ghostly traces of earlier marks you see in old paintings. It reminds me of Cy Twombly, the way he layered words and lines into these gorgeous, messy compositions. You get the sense with both artists that artmaking is an experiment, always changing. It's about embracing the unexpected and letting the process lead the way.