Udkast til Poseidon-billedet 1917 - 1920

Edvard Weie made this drawing, Udkast til Poseidon-billedet, on paper with graphite, and it's full of sweeping, searching marks. It’s like he’s trying to wrestle something into being, maybe from the depths of his imagination, or maybe from the sea itself. I wonder what Weie was thinking, grappling with Poseidon, the god of the sea. Was he thinking about power, or maybe the chaotic, untamable nature of the ocean? You can almost feel him pushing and pulling the graphite across the page, trying to capture something elusive. Look at the way he’s built up the shadows, layering stroke upon stroke. There’s a real energy in those lines, a sense of movement and force. It's like he’s not just drawing a figure, but also the feeling of the ocean’s currents, the push and pull. Weie, like all of us who make things, was in conversation with other artists. He's part of this long, ongoing exchange of ideas, inspiring and challenging each other across time. It’s never really about fixed meanings, but more about embracing the messy, uncertain process of trying to express something that words just can’t capture.