Notater om himmellegemers konstellationer og mulige indvirkning på klimaforhold 1913 - 1914

This page of "Notater om himmellegemers konstellationer og mulige indvirkning på klimaforhold" was made around the time of the First World War, by J.A. Jerichau II, and is preserved in the Statens Museum for Kunst. I feel for Jerichau. He died so young. Look at how the light grey ink bleeds into the fibrous paper. The ink is diluted, like watered down paint. And the handwriting leans across the page with urgency and a forward momentum. What was he thinking? What was he trying to capture and remember before it faded from view? His words are ghostly—barely visible against the aged page, fading like a memory. I think of Cy Twombly. Like Jerichau, he was a poet as well as a painter, and similarly interested in how language makes meaning. Artists are always having conversations with one another. In a world of constant change, we are all scribbling and scraping, adding our marks. We are all trying to hold on.