Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1919

This vintage postcard to Philip Zilcken by Norma Susan Labouchere feels intimate, like a note passed between friends. It's an interesting work that is not painted but written, which makes it feel like a painting. You can imagine her hand moving across the paper, choosing each word carefully. The handwriting, flowing and personal, is a different type of mark making. The text becomes a kind of landscape, almost abstract in its arrangement on the card. The stamp and postmark add layers of history, like textures in a painting. It reminds you that art doesn’t have to be just what’s on a canvas; it can be found in everyday moments, in the act of reaching out to someone. It’s easy to forget that artists are people, too, sending postcards, living their lives. And sometimes, those little everyday acts become art in themselves.