Studie, vermoedelijk een dier c. 1905

This drawing, Studie, vermoedelijk een dier, was made by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, but when exactly, we don’t know. The materials are simple: pencil on paper, a support that encourages a direct, immediate way of working. The piece is really more like a notation than a fully realized image. An animal's body is tentatively suggested in a few lines, barely there, and then there's all this looping text, numbers and names. The drawing is interrupted by writing. It's like the artist was thinking on the page, letting the image and the text mingle together. I love how the softness of the graphite creates a sense of transience, as if the image and text might just float away. It reminds me a bit of Twombly's sketchbooks, where writing and drawing become a kind of personal code. Ultimately, it reminds us that art is often about the process of searching, questioning, and recording, rather than arriving at a fixed conclusion.