Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken before 1928

This postcard was sent to Philip Zilcken by Adriaan Pit in 1928. Look at the marks, the stamps, the handwriting... can you imagine the hand pressing down on the paper, leaving its trace? It is as if the artist is in communication with the recipient and also with us. I think a lot about how that touch lives on. Think of Cy Twombly scratching with a pencil again and again on the canvas until it becomes something else, a field of knowledge. Or maybe a letter from Agnes Martin, simple and straight. It makes me wonder what Adriaan Pit was thinking when he sent it, and what Zilcken felt when he received it. It all lives on, even now, in our collective memory. Even this postcard, in its own way, is participating in the great conversation of painting.