Studie 1906 - 1945

This study was made by Reijer Stolk, though the date is unknown. It's a drawing on paper, and it feels like the beginning of something. I’m really drawn to the minimal approach to mark-making here. It reminds me that art is a process of thinking through things – of making the invisible visible. Look closely, and you can see the texture of the paper, the subtle shifts in tone. The pencil lines are so delicate, like tentative gestures feeling their way across the surface. Those few strokes on the left side of the page are so open and unresolved, yet they hold the whole composition together. You can feel the artist working out the bare minimum needed to say something. I think Cy Twombly would have liked this. Art like this reminds us that the most profound statements often come from the quietest voices. It embraces the beauty of incompletion.