Brief aan Max Dittmar Henkel Possibly 1926

This is a letter to Max Dittmar Henkel by Johan Enschedé & Zn., dated February 24, 1926. Look at this handwriting! It's a real dance across the page, so alive. You can just feel someone in the act of writing, not knowing exactly what's going to happen. Imagine sitting down to write this letter. What were they thinking? How fast were they writing? Was it a hot day? Were they in love? The thing about handwriting is that it embraces ambiguity and uncertainty. It’s like a painting in that way. It's like each word is a little painting, a gesture, a kind of mark-making. All this energy and intention locked into these squiggles on a page. I imagine they were just trying to figure something out. Artists are in this ongoing conversation, this exchange of ideas across time, inspiring each other, generations echoing and building upon what came before. And sometimes, it's just a simple letter that gets us there.