Blad 95 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949) Possibly 1937 - 1939

This is 'Blad 95 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949)', created by an anonymous artist, and it's like a window into another time. The piece is this open book, probably made of paper. What really grabs me is the layering - photographs pasted onto a grid of handwritten records. There's something almost sculptural about it. Look at the way the handwriting fills each box, each script unique. It's like a performance, right? The signatures jump out as particularly expressive, almost like miniature drawings of the names themselves. I keep coming back to that tension between the order of the grid and the messy, unpredictable nature of the people documented here. It reminds me of some of Rauschenberg's combines, where he would smash together all kinds of found images and objects to create these wild, associative narratives. Like Rauschenberg, this book shows us how art can bring together different ways of seeing and experiencing the world. There's no single right answer here, just a bunch of clues, waiting to be pieced together.