Brief aan Fritz Mannheimer Possibly 1924 - 1925

This is a letter written in 1924 by Jan Veth, and I imagine he used a fountain pen with dark ink. The thing that leaps out is the layering of marks and words through crossing out and rewriting, which makes me think about artmaking as a process of constant revision. Looking closely, you can see how some areas are densely packed with ink, while others have a lighter, more transparent feel. All those corrections and additions feel like a kind of texture, like layers of paint building up on a canvas. It’s almost like a drawing in itself, a kind of physical manifestation of the artist's thought process. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s mark-making. Veth's letter isn't just about the literal message, but about the act of writing, of thinking through language. Art invites us to embrace uncertainty and to appreciate the beauty of the unfinished.