Rejsedagbog. Novi Ligure 1846

Johan Thomas Lundbye created this page from a travel journal with ink on paper. The page presents a dense block of handwritten text, a field of black ink strokes against the pale ground of the paper. The writing, organized in neat horizontal lines, creates a rhythmic visual pattern across the page. This arrangement is not merely functional; it transforms the text into an aesthetic element, inviting us to consider the form of the writing as much as its content. Lundbye's journal entry engages with the semiotic interplay between language, memory, and visual representation. The act of writing becomes a means of capturing and fixing transient experiences into a structured, readable format. This page asks us to contemplate how we construct meaning through language and how the physical act of inscription shapes our understanding of the world.