Brief aan Philip Zilcken before 1918

This is a note to Philip Zilcken by Cornelia van der Hart, and it was written with ink on paper. I am always interested in the places where writing and art overlap. Look at the shapes the letters make, how the ink pools and thins as the nib moves across the page. See how the loops and tails of the letters create a rhythm? You can almost hear the scratch of the pen, the writer's breath. It's like a little dance happening right there on the paper. I love how immediate and personal this feels. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbled paintings, where the act of writing becomes a form of drawing. Both embrace imperfection, ambiguity, and the beauty of the spontaneous gesture. There is something so human about it, don't you think?