Ontwerp voor zout- en pepervaten 1874 - 1932

This line drawing of salt and pepper shakers was made by Mathieu Lauweriks with ink on paper. The controlled black lines depict the plan for a pair of containers and I immediately wonder how many iterations it took to arrive at this design. Was it a Eureka moment, captured in one go, or did it slowly and deliberately come into being through trial, error, and intuition? You can feel Lauweriks's presence, as if he were here, guiding my hand, showing me how a tiny shift can change the whole feeling, the mood. I love the way the two containers mirror each other, while remaining distinct forms, connected by a central axis point. It reminds me how artists engage in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. To look at a drawing like this is to be reminded that painting is a form of embodied expression.