Brief aan Mien Cambier van Nooten 1912 - 1940

This letter to Mien Cambier van Nooten – it's undated, but Dick Ket wrote it using pen and ink. I imagine him hunched over his desk, the nib scratching against the paper as his thoughts poured out in a hurried script. You can almost feel the urgency in his handwriting, the looping letters and frantic crossings-out hinting at the restlessness of his mind. Maybe he paused, mid-sentence, lost in thought, or perhaps he was interrupted, forced to return to his writing later. He’s all over the place! Mixing intimate asides with grand pronouncements, veering from the personal to the political with dizzying speed. It reminds me of Cy Twombly, another great mark-maker. I wonder if Twombly ever saw this? You get the sense that artists are always in conversation, answering each other across time and space. Like passing notes in class.