Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1909

This postcard was sent to Philip Zilcken by Léonce Bénédite at some point, with ink and paper. It's funny how something so simple can feel like a little portal to another time. I'm drawn to the handwritten text. The way the ink varies in thickness, a kind of dance between intention and chance. You can almost feel the hand moving across the page. It is like there is the formal message of the card but then this more gestural, intimate piece of information held within the form of the letters, And the postmarks! Each stamp and circle telling a story of distance and travel. They remind me that art is always in dialogue, a conversation stretching across time and space, artists influencing each other, responding, and creating something new. Just like the marks on the card, meaning is never fixed, always shifting.