Recept voor linoleumwas 1906 - 1945

Reijer Stolk wrote this recipe for linoleum wax sometime before 1945, in ink on paper, and you can see in the handwriting that it was artmaking as a process. The color of the page, a sort of aged, grayish white, with handwriting that's a faded black, creates this intimate experience like you're reading someone's personal notes. Check out the loops and flourishes in the letters, how some words are cramped and others stretch out – it's like a little dance across the page. The recipe itself is a series of gestures, mixing this with that, cooking it up, a bit like painting, where you’re combining materials and processes to create something new. It reminds me of On Kawara, who made these artworks that recorded the date, and the date itself became a drawing. This recipe is like that, but for making linoleum wax, but also maybe for something else, for art.