Notities 1906 - 1945

This page of notes was made by Reijer Stolk, though we don’t know exactly when. Stolk was a painter, but these marks are not quite painting, not quite drawing, but a kind of thinking through the hand. Look at how the jotted lines of text and numbers cluster and overlap, a palimpsest of mental activity. The ink is thin, almost watery, leaving delicate traces on the page. The act of writing becomes a dance of thought, a way of mapping the terrain of the mind. Notice the way the words are not neatly arranged, but scattered across the surface, like constellations in the night sky. The looping script reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbled paintings, or even the frantic energy of some outsider art. It’s a reminder that art doesn't always have to be polished or perfect. Sometimes, the most interesting things happen in the margins, in the messy, unresolved spaces between ideas.