Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1915

This postcard to Philip Zilcken was penned in 1915 by Anna de Savornin Lohman with ink on paper. Just imagine Lohman's hand moving across the card, her thoughts forming into elegant script as she wrote to Zilcken. What were they discussing? The world was at war, after all. I like to think that Lohman paused for a moment, considering the weight of her words, the physical act of writing connecting her to the recipient. It's like, the materiality of that blue stamp, with its slightly blurred edges, it just kinda speaks to the passage of time, and the way that even mundane objects can carry so much meaning. Painters are always in conversation, you know? Each of us responding to what came before, adding our own little piece to the puzzle. It's a back-and-forth, a give-and-take, that spans generations. Like a game of telephone only with ink and paint, full of happy accidents, always open to new interpretations.