Lijst van been- en armspieren in Duits en Latijn 1906 - 1945

This “Lijst van been- en armspieren in Duits en Latijn” was made by Reijer Stolk sometime before 1945. It's basically a diagram, but it really reminds me of concrete poetry. I can imagine Stolk carefully constructing the page, laying each piece out as if composing a song. Stolk must have known how the body is a kind of language. I think that he understood something essential about the body, maybe how the layers of meaning are embedded beneath the surface. The black bars act as graphic anchors, holding everything together. I think Stolk is telling us something about how to read, or maybe misread, the body. The list is strangely poetic, don’t you think? “Innerer Schenkel M Vaitus Internus”. It makes me wonder about the hidden languages within us all. It also makes me think about how we are all connected by the same muscles and bones. Artists are in an ongoing conversation, sharing ideas across time. It’s all one big messy exchange.