Brief aan Mien Cambier van Nooten Possibly 1937

This is a letter by Dick Ket, though there is no date, just the location of the Rijksmuseum where it is housed. Look at this handwriting. It is so personal, intimate; an outpouring of thought and feeling, all crammed onto the page. You can imagine him hunched over the paper, his pen scratching away as he tries to capture the fleeting thoughts that race through his mind. It’s dense, packed with information, observations, and emotions. There’s a real sense of urgency and intensity in the way the words are scrawled across the page. I wonder what was going through his head as he wrote? It is not the same as a painter slathering paint but there is the same desire to transcribe every feeling through the body. He's capturing a specific moment in time, not just for Mien, but almost for himself, a way of freezing a thought before it disappears. It’s like a conversation, a back-and-forth between the writer and the recipient, a shared moment of connection. This is how we influence each other in the world.