Brief aan anoniem 1884 - 1952

This letter, "Brief aan anoniem", was written by Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, but we don't know exactly when. It's a dance of script across the page. I love the way the ink almost seems to float. Looking at the letterhead, ‘Mimosa Kunstportefeuille’—it’s like the words are performing, each letter bending and leaning into the next. Imagine the hand that moved to make this—the angle, the pressure, the speed. There's a real rhythm there, and even though I can’t read Dutch, I feel like I can hear its cadence. This reminds me of Cy Twombly, whose scrawls and gestures can read like code. Both artists embrace a kind of beautiful illegibility. It's in that space that something magical happens, where the personal and the universal meet.