Citaten uit brieven aan mevrouw Artz after 1903

This is a piece called "Citaten uit brieven aan mevrouw Artz" by Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk. I like that it's essentially a page of writing. It reminds me of Cy Twombly. You get the sense that the making of this work, the writing, was a meditative process. The colour is understated, just dark grey ink on a creamy surface, and the form is raw, immediate, but it’s the texture that grabs you – the way the words are densely packed together on the page, almost like a woven fabric. It’s very clear you’re seeing something handmade, personal. Look at the way the lines wiggle and slant, the little imperfections, like the way a letter loops back on itself. It all feels so intimate, like we’re overhearing a conversation. There's a similar work by Rijsewijk that is also a letter and also about artmaking, which gives you the sense of artmaking as an ongoing conversation.