Studie af fontæne, samt notater 1902 - 1905

This drawing of a fountain, plus notes, was made by Niels Larsen Stevns with ink on paper. I love the way a fountain becomes an excuse to make marks, to try to capture the light. You can see he had a whole world in mind. It’s like he’s sitting there, maybe a little restless, trying to figure something out, how the water falls, the feeling of the place. Or maybe not even that literal. Sometimes drawing is just a way to be present, a dance between looking and feeling. The lines are so direct, so unpretentious. It's just trying to capture the essence of the thing, the way the light hits, the geometry of the design. And I think that’s what keeps me coming back to art, that sense of possibility, that someone else was here, trying to figure things out, just like me.