Brief aan Jan Veth Possibly 1907

Here is the story about the artwork: This is a letter to Jan Veth from Wally Moes, penned in 1907. You can imagine her writing it, maybe in a flurry, the ink flowing, each word a deliberate stroke. It’s not painting with oils but painting with words. There is a real intimacy to handwriting, isn’t there? I bet she was sitting alone, maybe with a cup of coffee. I wonder what she was thinking as she scratched out each word, the pen a vehicle for her thoughts and feelings, like a brush loaded with pigment, dragging across the surface, making marks, telling secrets. Artists are always in conversation, aren’t they? Across time and space. We leave our marks, our gestures, and other artists respond, adding their voices to the chorus. Painting, writing, it's all just a way of saying, "I was here. I felt this. Do you feel it too?"