To bibelhenvisninger og notat vedr. blomsterfloraen i Karmel i Galilæa og Tabor 1937 - 1938

This little notebook page by Niels Larsen Stevns, made at some unknown date, is just a collection of writing. I am immediately drawn into the intimate space of his thoughts. What's so cool about just a page of writing? Well, in my mind, the act of writing is a kind of performance. The writer, in this case Stevns, probably had no idea that someone like me, or you, would be reading this so many years later. So he just wrote, you know? I love how each word, each observation, is a record of a painter's attempt to capture the world, both its visible and invisible aspects. He's really talking to himself. His words show a deep engagement with mark-making and storytelling, which feels really familiar and reassuring to me as another artist. We're all just trying to figure it out, one mark at a time.