Brief aan Jan Kalff Possibly 1905 - 1930

This is a letter from Jan Veth to Jan Kalff Jr, written in 1905. You can see in the typewriter marks and the texture of the page, an understanding of artmaking as a process. The letter is a physical object, with a color and surface that affects how we emotionally experience it. It feels immediate, as if we are intruding on a personal communication. There's a handwritten date at the top, scrawled in ink, like a little flourish. It's not just information; it's a gesture. There's a raw, unedited quality to the letter that's really interesting. It reminds me a bit of Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, where you get this direct line into the artist's mind and process. Art is an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, which embraces ambiguity.