Brief aan Philip Zilcken before 1928

This letter to Philip Zilcken by Rose Imel, what a delicate dance of ink on paper! I can imagine Imel hunched over her writing desk, the pen scratching across the page, each letter a tiny gesture, a fleeting thought captured in time. You know, handwriting is so interesting; it’s like a fingerprint of the soul, isn’t it? The way the words loop and swirl, they create a rhythm, a visual poem, so expressive. I wonder what she was thinking, what she wanted to convey, and what it was like to communicate in this way. We have all these crazy screens now, but back then, writing letters must have been so intimate. It’s like a secret language, a code between two people. Rose Imel and Philip Zilcken, I wonder what stories they shared. It’s such a treat to imagine, and it reminds me of my own work, the way I try to capture that sense of movement and feeling with paint.