Udkast til Poseidonbilledet 1917 - 1919

This drawing, “Udkast til Poseidonbilledet,” is a preparatory sketch by Edvard Weie, made with what looks like charcoal or crayon on paper. You know, when I see a sketch like this, I immediately think of process - all the thinking and feeling that goes into finding the right form. There’s a real physicality to the marks here. Look at the heavy, dark strokes massed together on the bottom left. They're almost like a block of something, a solid shape, but then the artist loosens up and the lines become more like suggestions. It’s so interesting how the dense, almost aggressive marks contrast with the tentative, searching lines elsewhere. It’s like the drawing is trying to find itself. I wonder if Weie was looking at Rodin? There’s a similar sense of form emerging from a mass of marks, a kind of wrestling with the material to bring something into being. Ultimately, what I love about a sketch like this is that it embraces the incomplete, the unresolved. It's more about the journey than the destination.