Landschap met water 1906 - 1907

Willem Witsen made this landscape with water using a pencil; it's all about capturing a moment, a feeling, right? I mean, look at those marks, they're so immediate. The texture of the pencil on paper gives this beautiful, almost fuzzy quality to the whole scene. It’s not about detail, it’s about suggestion, like a half-remembered dream. There's this one spot, near the center, where Witsen has built up the pencil strokes, creating a little thicket of dark marks against the lighter ground. It’s like a tiny, intense world within the larger one. It's really about embracing ambiguity. You know, letting the drawing breathe and allowing space for the viewer to bring their own experiences to it. It reminds me a bit of Twombly, actually, this sense of openness and gesture.