Fragment van een ornamenteel kader 1884 - 1952

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries made this sketch of an ornamental frame, with pencil on paper. Just look at those looping lines and fields of circles, like the plan for an elaborate garden! I can almost imagine the artist, maybe a little obsessed, working patiently to get each curve and dot just right. It's like they're building a whole world within this fragment. You know, sometimes when I'm in the studio, I get so caught up in the details that the big picture fades away. But that’s when the magic happens - when I let myself get lost in the process. Maybe de Vries was feeling something similar, letting his hand lead the way through this intricate design. The delicacy of the line is really something. It reminds me of artists like Hilma af Klint, who also used geometric forms to explore the unseen. It's like a secret language, whispering to us across time.