Notat vedr. Sysseltinget i Hjørring i senmiddelalderen, fortsætter over midten 1932 - 1935

It seems Niels Larsen Stevns made this artwork with ink on paper, but there is no date listed. When I look at this page, filled with densely written text, I imagine him hunched over a table, maybe in a library or a quiet corner of his studio, carefully forming each letter. It is a historical record of a medieval court in Denmark. I sympathize with him, trying to reconstruct a narrative from old documents. The lines of text create a rhythm, almost like musical notation, and the smudges and corrections reveal the artist's process of discovery. It’s kind of like the way one layer of paint can reveal or conceal what's beneath. He carefully articulates a cross symbol on the page. This work reminds me that artists are often historians, archivists, and storytellers, piecing together fragments of the past to create a new understanding of the present. It is clear how artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.