Feesttent met puntdak voor een trap 1892 - 1913

Bramine Hubrecht made this quick sketch of a festival tent next to a staircase, most likely with graphite on paper. Look at how the marks hover on the page, like thoughts barely captured. You can almost feel the artist deciding what to keep and what to leave out. The lines are tentative, searching, a real record of the looking process. There's this cool tension between the solid, architectural form of the stairs and the ephemeral, temporary structure of the tent. The tent's pointy roof mirrors the upward movement of the stairs, but it's all so light and airy. It makes me think of Piranesi's etchings of impossible architectural spaces, but with a touch of playfulness. This sketch has a kind of raw, honest energy, like a visual note to self, before the real party begins.