Skitser af kaniner, samt en adresse 1906

This sketchbook page of rabbit sketches and an address, was made by Niels Larsen Stevns, we don't know exactly when. There's something so immediate and intimate about seeing these sketches, it gives the feeling of looking over the artist's shoulder, catching a glimpse of their working process. The marks are soft, exploratory, as if the artist is feeling their way around the form of the rabbits with their pencil. Look closely and you can almost see the ghost of erased lines, the evidence of the artist's hand constantly adjusting, refining, and searching. It makes me think of Cy Twombly, the way he was always searching for the right line, the perfect gesture. The grid of the paper adds another layer to the work. It creates a structure, a kind of scaffolding for the artist to build upon. But the sketches themselves seem to resist this structure, spilling over the lines, refusing to be contained. This tension between order and chaos is, for me, what makes the work so compelling. It speaks to the messy, unpredictable nature of creativity.