Grene over vand 1928

Fritz Syberg made this drawing, Grene over vand, with pen on paper. You know, looking at all those lines, I can imagine Syberg there, feeling the green fullness of the trees, the constant movement of the water. He’s just trying to capture it all, the feeling of the place. See how the marks are all hatched and scribbled, like he's trying to trap the light and shadow. It makes me think about the way we try to hold onto a moment, you know? How do you really capture something like that? Is it even possible? Maybe Syberg is thinking about that, too. Like, how can he translate what he's seeing into something else, something new? He probably looked at other landscape artists like Johan Christian Dahl, of course, but ended up doing his own thing. That’s what we all do, isn’t it? We borrow, we steal, and then we make it our own.