Letters from the series Poems in Drawings 1930

Mikuláš Galanda made this drawing, Letters from the series Poems in Drawings, using ink, and you can see the hand of the artist in the delicacy of the lines. I wonder what Galanda was thinking when he made this? The juxtaposition of the organic, leaf shape and the more rigid, architectural form creates a sense of tension and maybe even playfulness. It's like he's setting up a conversation between nature and culture right there on the page. What do you make of it? There's something really tender about the way he's rendered the leaf, with its delicate veins and the subtle shading along its edge. And then you have the square, with its maze-like interior. It's almost like a little world unto itself. The contrast between the leaf and the square makes you think about the relationship between the natural and the constructed. It's a reminder that artists like Galanda are in an ongoing conversation across time, inspiring creativity.