Briefkaart aan Jeanne Henriette Hijmans Possibly 1904

This is a postcard addressed to Jeanne Henriette Hijmans, made sometime around 1904 by Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. I love thinking about how this postcard traveled through space and time, carrying a message we can no longer read but can still sense. There's a kind of melancholy in these old everyday objects. Dijsselhof probably didn’t think of it as a work of art, but now it’s in a museum. I wonder if Jeanne kept it, or threw it away? There is the stamp, the postmark, the address, and the handwriting, all these traces of human communication condensed into one small rectangle. A humble art form. In our own digital age of fleeting images and instant communication, this quiet, material object feels deeply resonant, a reminder of slower, more tangible connections. It speaks to the history of mark-making and communication across time.