Brief aan Willem Bogtman 1920 - 1938

This letter, or note really, by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, feels like a page torn from an artist’s sketchbook. You can imagine him thinking through his ideas with a pen, the words like a dance across the page. It’s all about the materiality of thought here, right? The writing itself becomes a kind of drawing, with each word a deliberate mark. You can see the way the ink slightly bleeds into the paper, it is like he's not just writing words, but also creating a textured surface. Holst here reminds me of Paul Klee, actually, in the way he combines text and image, blurring the lines between writing and art making. And, like Klee, he invites us to consider art as a form of inquiry, where meaning is not fixed but emerges through the process of exploration and experimentation.