Antik scene med knælende og liggende figur under et træ 1915 - 1924

Gudrun Traustedt made this drawing of an antique scene with ink on paper, but we don’t know exactly when. It looks like she was really in the zone, going for it. I love how she used these simple washes of brown ink to build up the forms of the figures and the tree. You can see all the brushstrokes, wet and drippy, especially up in the branches. Then look closer and you'll notice these really delicate, light lines moving through the whole composition, they almost seem to be mapping the space between the figures. I see the same kind of line in work by Lotte Laserstein, that sensitive exploration of form and space. It's like Traustedt is sharing her process, not trying to hide anything. It makes me think about artmaking as a kind of conversation, where each mark builds on the last, and the final image is just one moment in an ongoing exchange. Nothing fixed, but always open.