Applicatie van machinale kant voor een ronde halslijn c. 1920 - 1930

This is a machine-made lace collar. Imagine the maker at the machine, coaxing those fine threads to mimic flowers and leaves. It’s like drawing with string, each loop and knot building up an intricate landscape. I think about the maker and how they transform an industrial process into something delicate and organic. The repeated patterns almost trick you into thinking it was made by hand, like a spider web or a frost pattern on glass. It reminds me of some of my own painterly gestures, where I try to blend the mechanical and the intuitive. How can the accidental and the intentional coexist? There’s a dance between control and surrender in art-making. And in those moments, we’re all just trying to make something beautiful, something that speaks to the human desire for connection and expression.