Brief aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1923

This letter to Philip Zilcken by Rose Imel is a flurry of blue ink on pale paper, a script that dances across the page. I imagine Imel’s hand moving quickly, the pen a seismograph recording the tremors of thought and feeling. It's interesting to think about what it must have been like to make this. The intimacy of handwriting, the way the ink bleeds slightly into the paper, it all speaks to a directness of expression, a sense of urgency. Each stroke feels immediate, unedited. The slant of the letters, the pressure of the pen—they all tell a story. It's like she's right there in the room with us, sharing her thoughts. You could compare it to Cy Twombly’s scribbled paintings, where writing becomes image, and image becomes writing. Artists are always in conversation, you know? They echo and respond to each other across time. It's about embracing the uncertain, the unfinished, and finding beauty in the process.