Om forhold mellem kvinder og mænd, fædre og mødre, pligter og slægter samt om forholdet til jorden og stjernerne 1913 - 1914

This page, from J.A. Jerichau’s sketchbook, is filled with ideas about relationships - between women and men, fathers and mothers - all written in a loose, flowing hand. It looks like the writing is the art itself, almost like automatic writing where thoughts spill onto the page. The ink is dark against the off-white paper, like thoughts materializing. You can see the texture of the page, a subtle grain that makes you want to touch it, feel the history held within. There’s a stain, maybe coffee or tea, that adds a layer of accident and time, like the work has been aged to perfection. These spills are not mistakes, they show the intimacy of the process. It reminds me that artmaking is not just about having something to say, it’s about the doing. Jerichau’s pages remind me a little bit of Cy Twombly’s scribbled notes and diagrams, where the act of writing becomes a kind of drawing. There’s something beautifully unresolved here, a sense that art is an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed statement.