Brief aan Philip Zilcken before 1916

This letter to Philip Zilcken was written by Eugénie Clapier-Houchart in March 1916 with pen on paper, a private message made public. I can imagine Eugénie sitting at a desk in her home in Montpellier writing to a dear friend. The handwriting loops and swirls, a dance of ink across the page. It makes me wonder about the relationship between the artist and Zilcken. The words are carefully chosen, yet the script is fluid, almost as if the thoughts flowed directly from her mind onto the paper. It's like a drawing, the lines creating shapes and patterns. I bet she wrote this while thinking about something else, maybe the war, maybe another artist. Letters are so different from emails, aren't they? They carry the weight of time and intention. I wonder if she ever imagined her words would be seen by strangers like us, years later. All artists are connected, reaching across time and space, exchanging ideas and inspiring one another. It is a reminder that even in times of uncertainty, art endures, inviting us to explore its many meanings.