Alf Petersens gloser og bemærkninger til Atta Troll 1930 - 1938

This is a page from Niels Larsen Stevns’ “Alf Petersens gloser og bemærkninger til Atta Troll.” It's undated, but it’s full of *stuff*, like the most exciting notebooks usually are. I love the way the handwriting seems to spill across the page, with the ink soaking into the paper. You can almost feel Stevns hovering over the page, pen in hand, lost in thought. The texture of the paper itself becomes part of the artwork. Look at how the lines of writing vary in thickness, some words bolder, others fading away, as if the artist's concentration came and went, like most of ours does. The overall effect is of a mind at work, a process of thinking made visible. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s blackboard paintings, not in style, but in the sense of capturing a fleeting moment, an idea in mid-flight. Art isn't about answers; it's about the questions, the scribbles, the messy, beautiful process of trying to make sense of the world.