Architectuurstudies c. 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this architectural study, probably in his sketchbook, with pencil. Look at these lines! Tentative, searching, almost disappearing in places. I feel like I'm right there with the artist, watching the building slowly emerge from the page. Maybe he was trying to understand the relationships between the different parts of the structure, or capture a particular feeling it gave him. You know, drawing like this is like a conversation between the eye, the hand, and the mind. It's a way of thinking through seeing. You can almost sense Cachet's curiosity and the decisions he was making in real-time. Artists build on each other's ideas, and this piece reminds me of Piranesi's architectural fantasies. It’s like they're all part of this long, ongoing exploration of form and space and imagination. And that conversation is still happening today.