Tekst over het onderkomen 1942 - 1943

This piece, "Tekst over het onderkomen," feels like it was made with purpose and a story to tell. I am struck by the simple presentation and the content it contains. Imagine the artist handling the document, carefully selecting the paper, thinking, 'This is it, this is what I need to use, this is the way I'm going to share what is important. I am an anonymous person doing what I can to give the information that I have.' It makes me wonder if the artist made this piece as a reflection of their own sense of home, perhaps a contemplation on history and displacement. You get this feeling of a life being examined, a place being remembered, and a story being told, but also of an artwork coming into being. I love how other artists respond to this kind of personal and historical reflection, and how they make something totally new out of it. That's the conversation that art is, right? It is ever evolving and it builds on the past, while embracing uncertainty and change.