Brief aan Ab Bogtman Possibly 1940

This letter to Ab Bogtman was written by Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk, and you can see the way her pen just dances across the page. I imagine her sitting at a desk, maybe in a quiet room, the scratching of the nib the only sound as her thoughts flow onto the paper. There's a real intimacy in handwriting, don't you think? You can feel the writer’s presence in every stroke, every curve. Look at the slant of the words, the way the letters connect and disconnect. Some lines are bold and decisive; others are light and almost hesitant. It’s like a visual record of her thought process, her mood as she wrote. I love how the messiness and the imperfections make it feel so human and real. It feels like a raw, unfiltered expression, almost like she's whispering secrets to the page, don’t you think?