Studieblad, onder andere met een figuur c. 1905

This is a sketchbook page, a study with a figure, by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. Just looking at these delicate, tentative lines, you can feel the artist trying to capture something elusive. There’s a sense of searching, of the image emerging slowly through the process of drawing. I can imagine Cachet, his brow furrowed, pencil in hand, trying to coax the forms into being. He’s not interested in precision here, but in something more felt, more intuitive. There's a tenderness to these lines, a vulnerability. It’s like overhearing a conversation, a whisper between the artist and the subject. He's in dialogue with all the artists who have ever tried to capture the human form, adding his own voice to that ongoing conversation. Each stroke communicates a feeling, an intention, a question. For me, painting is an ongoing exchange of ideas across time, each artist inspiring the creativity of others. In its ambiguity and uncertainty, it allows for multiple interpretations.