Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken en Henriette Wilhelmina van Baak Possibly 1913 - 1926

This postcard was made in 1913 by Fenna de Meyier and, like my own art making, is about process. Look closely and you’ll see this isn’t just a message, it’s a performance. I’m drawn to the layering of marks. The handwriting, looping and urgent, shares space with the official stamp of the post office, that severe circle with its radial date. What I love most is the contrast between the mechanical, almost brutal, lines of the cancellation slashing across the delicate stamp, and the casual, flowing script. Those dark blue grey lines, permanent but fleeting, like thoughts. I often think of Cy Twombly when I see things like this, his work also embraces the beauty of the incidental mark, of the ephemeral. I’m interested in how these small, throwaway acts of communication take on new life and meaning across time. Art isn’t about answers, it’s about the ongoing conversation, the beautiful ambiguity.