Notater, om skaberevnen, Raphael og renæssancen - "det er den Kilde vi skal øse af"; om himmellegemers konstellationer, "Harmonier", "Ligevægtsforhold"; om "Tid - Rum - Form - Spænding - Enhed. Uendelighed", der står i indbyrdes forhold til hinanden 1913 - 1914

This page of handwritten notes was composed some time before 1916 by J.A. Jerichau, likely using pen and ink. The looping script feels more like a drawing than writing. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's blackboard paintings where writing becomes image, a kind of abstract code to be deciphered. I imagine the artist hunched over this book, caught up in a frenzy of thought, the pen racing to keep pace. What kinds of connections were they trying to make between Raphael, the Renaissance, earthly existence, and the cosmos? These aren’t casual jottings but rather an attempt to work through ideas, setting out new combinations, absorbing the work of the masters in order to discover something new. We can think of artists as being in a constant conversation across time and space – a kind of call and response, echoing and amplifying one another's creative energy. This page embodies the restless, searching spirit of art itself.