Entre-deux en galon met kralen, zwart c. 1920

This beaded black trimming was made by Gustav Schnitzler. I imagine this artwork came into being through trial, error, and intuition. When I look at this delicate piece of work, I can only sympathize with the artist, imagining what it must have been like to create it, and what they might have been thinking when they made it. Its material aspects, such as texture and surface, shape our experience of the artwork and contribute to its emotional and intellectual resonances. In its gestures this work communicates feeling, intention, and meaning, which suggests how it relates to the artist's wider practice and body of work, as well as the work of other designers. Artists are in an ongoing conversation, inspiring one another’s creativity across time. It is an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.