Ontwerp voor aardewerkdecoratie met plantaardige motieven Possibly 1920 - 1928

Theo Colenbrander sketched this design for earthenware decoration on paper, can you imagine, way back in the day? The plant motifs are captured with such fine lines, like he's trying to trap nature itself! It reminds me of Hilma af Klint's drawings. It's like Colenbrander's mind was a garden, and this drawing, just the blueprint for a future Eden on ceramics. I love how a simple sketch can hold so much possibility. You see the pencil strokes, the artist’s hand moving, figuring it all out. I wonder what he was thinking about as the design emerged? Was it about bringing the outside in, or about taming wildness onto a plate? You know, the physicality of it all, the paper, the graphite... I imagine each line a decision, each curve a question asked and answered.