Prentbriefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1913

This postcard to Philip Zilcken, was written by Etienne Dinet in 1913. It's a handwritten note, alive with the artist's looping script. Imagine Dinet, pen in hand, carefully forming each letter, the ink flowing onto the paper, his thoughts and feelings taking shape in elegant strokes. The letters dance across the card, their forms stretching and compressing, mirroring the rhythm of his thoughts. I feel the intimacy of this gesture. He's just sharing a bit of his life, his whereabouts, a thank you. What's cool is that the energy of the handwriting becomes the artwork. It reminds me of Cy Twombly and his scribbled paintings. All those marks build to a kind of organised chaos, a record of process, a map of the artist's mind at work. It's a reminder that painting, like writing, is a conversation, an exchange of ideas across time and space.