De Kuiperspoort, noordzijde, te Middelburg Possibly 1938

Willem Kromhout made this line drawing of Middelburg’s Kuiperspoort in 1938. You can imagine him on site with his pen, carefully tracing what he sees. What I find myself thinking about when looking at this image, is how the artist chose the medium and what that says about what was important to them. The linear quality here is so descriptive; you can see all the angles and the forms of the buildings. The various lines describe all of the windows, the gables and the doors, and invite you to inhabit this place. It makes me consider what it’s like to depict the world in this way and what that offers me as a viewer. It suggests a way of looking that's about taking things apart, analyzing them, and seeing the world as a set of constituent parts. I appreciate the way that artists talk to each other through their practices, each of them showing us different ways of looking and being.