Ontwerp voor een boekrug before 1970

This is a sketch for a book cover by Hans Borrebach. I can imagine him with his pencil hovering over the page, testing out different ideas for the spine, the title. Look at those lines, so tentative, as if searching for the right form. You know, sketching is like thinking aloud on paper. It is full of false starts and corrections, it is where the artist really figures out what they want to say. I feel a kinship with Borrebach here, this feels like me when I'm trying to figure out a painting. I wonder what book this spine was for? I love how artists are in conversation with each other. Borrebach’s ideas might have been sparked from looking at other books, other artists, playing with those ideas in his own way. Painting is like that, an ongoing dialogue, an exchange across time.