Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken before 1918

This Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken by T. Himelschein is like a little material poem sent through the post. You can almost see the artist's hand moving as they wrote. It’s not just about what it says, but how it looks, like the handwriting itself is a kind of drawing. The texture of the card and the ink have this really intimate feel. The way the ink settles into the paper, with all of its imperfections, feels so important. Look at how the address is written, the loops and the curves of the letters have their own rhythm. And the postmarks! They're not just stamps, they're part of the piece, like a collaboration across time and distance. It reminds me a bit of Cy Twombly, how he made scribbles into something profound. Art doesn't always have to be about perfect representation; it can be about the joy of mark-making and communication. It’s about the dialogue between the artist, the recipient, and time itself, leaving us to fill in the blanks.