Kalenderbladen van juli, oktober en september, met korenschoven, zwanen en konijnen 1901

This is Theo van Hoytema’s "Kalenderbladen van juli, oktober en september, met korenschoven, zwanen en konijnen", made with some kind of printmaking technique. Look at how van Hoytema layers those muted browns and creams. It's like he’s building up a memory of these months, not just illustrating them. The textures created by the printmaking process give it this incredible depth, almost like you could reach out and feel the grain of the paper. There is one area, in the middle panel, where you can see the looping lines of the trees, the thickness of the ink, it almost looks like it could be etched. It reminds me of the early graphic work of someone like Hilma af Klint. You get this sense of both artists trying to grasp something beyond the surface of the everyday through repeated gestures. It's about embracing the imperfections, the accidental beauty of the process itself. It's not about perfection; it's about the ongoing conversation of seeing.