Ontwerp voor een vignet met monogram RWPdV 1884 - 1952

This is a pencil sketch for a monogram by Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries. Looking at it, I imagine the artist making delicate marks, feeling his way through the lines and geometry to form the initials. You can almost see the ghost of erasures and corrections, those faint lines sketching out forms, shifting and changing, until the image emerges. I feel a kind of kinship with De Vries here. I can imagine him working through that process of uncertainty and experimentation, trying to get it just right. I see a formal structure and an organic form, like vines. It reminds me how art is always speaking to other art, how we are all drawing on something that came before us. Ultimately, this monogram is about embracing the ambiguous and the multiple. It’s not just a fixed image, but a process, an inquiry, and it’s so generous in how it invites us to participate in the conversation.