Brief aan Willem Vogelsang Possibly 1907

This letter to Willem Vogelsang was created at an unknown date by Hendrik Petrus Berlage using ink on paper. There's something really intimate about looking at someone’s handwriting. It’s like getting a peek inside their head, seeing their thoughts flow right onto the page. I'm drawn to the way Berlage's script dances across the paper. It’s not just about the words, but the rhythm and flow of the lines themselves. Notice the way he loops his letters, like he's playing with the idea of communication. You can almost feel the texture of the paper and the weight of the ink. See how the writing begins to fade and blur, perhaps because of the passage of time or the imperfect transfer of ink to paper? Berlage reminds me of Cy Twombly. Like Cy, he shows how art embraces ambiguity, inviting multiple interpretations over fixed meanings.