Brief aan Jan Veth Possibly 1903 - 1924

This letter to Jan Veth, was composed in Amsterdam, in 1903, by Pieter Lodewijk Tak. Imagine him, pen in hand, leaning over this paper. It’s like a dance, right? The way the ink flows, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, as his thoughts spill out. I wonder what he’s saying? The lines of script feel like a painting in themselves, those swooping ascenders and descenders, the tight curves of the letters, like brushstrokes on a canvas. You can see how the energy of his mind translates into the physical act of writing. Each word carefully placed. It reminds me a little of Cy Twombly's work. He wrote too, and his handwriting transformed into calligraphic marks. It’s all connected, you know? We're all just riffing off each other, trying to make sense of the world through line and form. Like a never-ending conversation, passing ideas back and forth across time.