Passement lichtrose van kleur en voorzien van picots c. 1920

This light pink trimming with picots by Gustav Schnitzler lives at the Rijksmuseum. It's the kind of thing that makes you think about all the painstaking work that goes into the little details. There's something so satisfying about the repetition here, the way the tiny loops and scallops line up. The texture is key; I can almost feel the delicate bumps and ridges of the lace. The pale pink is soft, innocent, but the way it's wound so tightly around that card gives it a kind of restrained energy. Look at the bottom edge, those zigzags—they’re so precise, so deliberate. I wonder what kind of tool made that perfect little point? It reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin's grids. Not in terms of style, obviously, but in the sense of quiet dedication. It is about finding beauty in simplicity, the extraordinary in the ordinary. It's art that embraces ambiguity, inviting us to project our own stories and meanings onto its surface.