Udkast til salen på Liselund 1930 - 1933

Joakim Skovgaard made this sketch in 1932 as a proposal for a hall at Liselund. I love seeing the bones of a project, the raw architecture of an idea. The pencil lines are tentative, searching—much like my own studio practice. You can almost feel him figuring it out as he goes, pressing harder in some areas, letting the line fade in others. It’s like a visual record of his thought process. I’m drawn to the figures huddled together in the center panel, there's something about the way they're rendered with these quick, almost scribbled marks. Are they arguing? Praying? Or just chatting? The beauty of a sketch like this is that it leaves so much open to interpretation. It reminds me of Tiepolo's drawings, the way he could conjure entire worlds with just a few strokes. Art is all about conversation, riffing off of what came before, and pushing it somewhere new. Skovgaard does that here.