Landschap met een vrouw zittend tussen twee wilgen 1878 - 1938

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst made this landscape of a woman seated between two willows with monochromatic ink. There's a deeply dreamlike quality to this drawing, right? I wonder what Roland Holst was thinking about. Was he thinking about a particular woman? Or was he thinking about some feeling or idea? Maybe it was about the kind of melancholic, romantic figure who wanders in nature? You know, when I look at the trees, I notice how his cross-hatching feels both solid and kind of scribbly. I can see him scratching away at the page to create the shading. It reminds me of how, as artists, we're always working from both observation and invention, mixing them up to make something new. I feel a kinship with Roland Holst across time. We're all in this ongoing conversation, riffing off each other.