Reisverslag van medio juni 1880 Possibly 1880 - 1886

This is 'Reisverslag van medio juni 1880', a page from a travel journal created around the middle of June 1880 by Louis Apol. The script on cream paper has linear structure, which is created through vertical and horizontal lines. The journal entry is a series of handwritten notes in a dark ink. The words form a dense pattern across the page. The handwriting, with its varying sizes and flowing letterforms, offers an intimate glimpse into Apol’s thoughts. This visual field serves to freeze the time in memory, yet the free handwriting disrupts the traditional meaning of line as division, and instead offers it as continuity. Apol's interest in light and shadow is well-known, but here, it is as if the very act of writing, of capturing fleeting moments, becomes an exploration of how we perceive and remember. The lines become not just linguistic signifiers, but carriers of experience.