Briefkaart aan Anna Dorothea Dirks before 1914

This little piece of mail was composed by Wally Moes, sometime around 1914. I can only imagine her holding this card, turning it over in her hands, trying to decide what to write. The ink looks thick and heavy on the page, a bit like treacle - I wonder if she was struggling to get the pen to work? Or maybe the ink was just old, sitting in a jar for years, slowly thickening and gathering dust. I love the way she’s signed her name, with a flourish. It's so confident and assured, like she knew exactly who she was and what she wanted to say. Postcards are little artworks in themselves, aren’t they? I wonder if Wally Moes knew Anna Veth well. Maybe they wrote to each other all the time, sending little scraps of news and gossip back and forth. Artists are always talking to one another, sending messages across time and space - it’s a big conversation, with ideas bouncing back and forth, feeding into each other's work.