Ontwerpen voor schotels en kannen van aardewerk Iseger Possibly 1920 - 1929

Theo Colenbrander made these sketches for earthenware bowls and jugs on August 29th. The delicate lines have a real tenderness. You can see Colenbrander working with the pencil, moving it across the paper and slowly refining each shape. I like to imagine him thinking about what these vessels will eventually hold: water? Milk? How does the shape of a bowl determine how we drink from it? You know, drawing is a kind of thinking. These simple marks can become a way to understand the world and our relationship to it. They remind me of other artist’s working drawings, Cy Twombly's looping lines, or maybe Jasper John’s cross hatching. All artists are in a conversation with one another. We are all trying to figure out how to communicate, how to make sense of what we see and feel, one line at a time.