Cirkel 1928

Here is a page from Carel Adolph Lion Cachet’s sketchbook, which seems to be the plan for a design of some kind. I love this! When I look at it I think of Cy Twombly, and his interest in classical forms. It looks like Cachet is working through something, a problem to be solved, an idea that he is turning over in his mind with pencil marks, figuring it all out on paper first. A bit of trial and error, pushing and pulling to figure it out and make something new. The circle is the dominant form, and then there are all these measurements. He’s trying to get something right. It reminds me that we’re all trying to figure something out, and that art is a record of that struggle. I bet Cachet looked at the sketchbooks of other artists too. We all learn from each other, riffing off what others have done before.