Writing lady 1916

Gustav Schraegle made this drawing of a lady writing with ink on paper. The process of drawing is immediately apparent, like he’s thinking aloud. The marks aren’t labored over; they’re quick and casual, almost like he’s trying to capture a fleeting thought. It's all in this sort of energetic green ink. He’s using it to define the form, to give it weight, but also to let it breathe, you know? The lines around her head are so scribbly, it's like he's mapping the contours of her mind. The whole drawing feels like a sketch, but that's what makes it so appealing to me. It’s raw, immediate, like we're seeing into Schraegle’s process. It reminds me of a Cy Twombly drawing. The freedom of the mark-making. It’s less about perfection and more about capturing a moment, an idea, an atmosphere. That’s what I like, the ambiguity, the openness to interpretation.