Brief aan Philip Zilcken before 1925

This is a letter, a Brief aan Philip Zilcken, made by Alice Holbach with ink on paper. The fluid script suggests a mind in motion. It's interesting how handwriting betrays the rhythm and the emotion of the writer. Look at how the strokes vary in thickness and pressure. It’s like the writer is pressing harder when emphasizing a point or trailing off into contemplation. I love how personal something like this can be, the texture of the paper, the particular shade of the ink, they all carry a history within them. See the gentle curve of the ascenders and descenders of the lettering. It's like a dance across the page, almost like the automatist drawings of the Surrealists. There’s a kind of conversation happening here. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s scrawls, where the act of writing becomes a form of abstract expression. Both artists show us that art is about process. It's about the layering of thoughts and feelings, rather than the final product.