Og Katten var Herre i Huset og Hønen Madame 1928

This is a drawing made by Fritz Syberg; a flurry of hatching and cross-hatching rendered in dark ink. Syberg really goes for it—layering lines like he’s trying to catch something elusive. I can imagine him hunched over the paper, squinting, pushing the pen with the heel of his hand. The cat is chilling on the bed, right, but the lines around it are so frantic. You can almost hear Syberg thinking, *How do I make this feel alive?* It's a domestic scene but the artist gives the feeling that something else is going on here; an undercurrent of tension lurking beneath the surface. It reminds me that art is about seeing, feeling, and wrestling with the world. Artists like Syberg, and so many others, show us that uncertainty is part of the process. That’s how painting, drawing, thinking, and living, become a quest.