Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1929

This is Adriaan Pit's "Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken," a simple card from 1929. Look closely, and you’ll see the traces of its journey. Not paint, but the faded ink of the address, a stamp, and postal marks. It’s a humble object, yet it speaks volumes about connection and distance. The handwritten script, flowing and personal, suggests a direct, intimate exchange, while the bureaucratic stamps represent the cold machinery of the postal service. There's a tension there. Think about the physical journey this card took. Imagine the hands it passed through, the sorting offices, and the miles it traveled. The texture of the paper itself, aged and worn, holds the echoes of time. I like to think that art is, like this postcard, an act of communication, a reaching out across time and space. Like a Cy Twombly scrawl, it's a deceptively simple gesture.