Notities c. 1930

This is a page of handwritten notes by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, whereabouts unknown, but sometime between the late 19th and early 20th century. Imagine Cachet, maybe on a journey, maybe just planning one, filling the page with an elegant script that lists "tapyte," "miniatuur," and "vaas melgrad." I'm thinking about the way a simple list can become a kind of map, not just of places or things, but of the mind itself. The materiality of the notebook, the texture of the paper, and the ink bleeding into the page – it all speaks to a very human desire to capture and hold onto fleeting thoughts. You can see, in the looping letters, the rhythm of the hand moving across the page, almost like a dance. I like to think about what it means to make marks, any kind of marks, and how those marks connect us, not only to the person who made them but to each other, across time and space.