Brief aan Mien Cambier van Nooten Possibly 1939

This letter to Mien Cambier van Nooten was written by Dick Ket, and seems to be in ink on paper. It’s a postcard filled with handwriting that becomes the image. Ket’s using the writing almost like a drawing. There’s a real energy, a density to the marks. You can imagine Ket there, pen in hand, scratching out this letter, so eager. I wonder what Mien was like? And I imagine Ket turning the act of writing into something pictorial, something almost sculptural. It reminds me how artists often push the boundaries of their mediums, blurring the lines between writing, drawing, and painting. Maybe Ket saw the potential for expression in the simplest of gestures. You know? Like Cy Twombly, or even Basquiat, with their use of text. It's all connected, this ongoing conversation between artists, pushing each other, inspiring new ways of seeing.