Portret van een jongen c. 1905

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this drawing of a young boy, with graphite on paper. It's all about seeing the way the artist uses line to create form. The drawing is made up of all these delicate marks, each one on its own but also somehow adding up to a complete picture. Notice the lines around the boy's face, how they’re not perfectly closed but kind of suggest the shape. It’s like the artist is thinking out loud, letting us see their process of figuring out what the boy looks like. The graphite gives it this soft, almost dreamy quality, like a memory. It reminds me of other artists like, maybe, David Hockney, who also play with how we see and put things together. It’s like they’re all part of this big conversation about what art can be and how it can make us feel. Art is never really finished, right? It keeps going and changing with each new person who looks at it.