Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1910 - 1926

This is a postcard to Philip Zilcken, probably made with ink and paper, and with stamps. I wonder what Octave Maus was thinking about when he wrote to Zilcken. Maybe he was thinking about painting! I bet he was. The ink here is a little faded, but that stamp is dark. You know, there’s a lot of energy packed into this one little image, the quick way the address is written, the way ‘Hollande’ is written. All these little gestures combine on the surface, a bit like colors building up in a painting. I bet this guy was part of a whole conversation of artists, all sharing ideas. Artists build on the thinking of others. Every mark on a painting has the potential to reveal something.