Briefkaart aan Willem Bogtman Possibly 1922 - 1929

This briefkaart was sent by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, though I can't tell you when exactly. It's got stamps and handwriting all over it, like a little world on a card. I imagine Holst holding his pen, maybe a scratchy old thing, and the ink bleeding a bit into the paper, each letter a small, deliberate act. What was he thinking as he formed those words? Was he in a hurry, trying to catch the post, or was he lingering, enjoying the slow, tactile process of writing? The handwriting is a gesture itself. It’s like a drawing. A controlled kind of chaos, I suppose. Artists are always in conversation, you know? Holst probably looked at other people's writing, other people's art, and that all fed into his way of making a mark. It’s an ongoing exchange across time. Each mark holds a feeling, an intention, a meaning, however ambiguous. And that ambiguity? That's where the magic happens.