Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken before 1922

This postcard to Philip Zilcken was likely made with paper, ink, and a stamp somewhere around 1922. What's interesting to me is the layering of marks and textures here - the crisp, dark lines of the printed text, the smeared purple smudges, the handwritten script. It feels like a conversation across time and space. The stamp, with its image of a figure, contrasts with the almost frantic, looping handwriting. I wonder what the message said? The way the address is scrawled feels both intimate and hurried. It’s like the artist, Jeanne Erlich, was trying to capture a fleeting moment. Think about artists like Cy Twombly who turned handwriting into expressive mark-making. Erlich's postcard, in its own way, elevates the everyday act of communication into something poetic, something almost painterly. It reminds us that art is often found in the most unexpected places.