Voorwaarts Possibly 1945

This newspaper page, Voorwaarts, from 1945 by H.M.C. Schröder, is all about text, layered like sedimentary rock. I imagine the typesetter, hunched over, carefully placing each letter, line by line, a process of slow accretion. The overall grey tone is punctuated by bold headlines. It’s a landscape of information, promising clarity. I think of early modernist painters collaging newspaper into their work, repurposing the everyday. There's something exciting in art to reclaim what has been written and distributed to the masses, printed and reprinted into something personal. Even though this is not a painting, its all over flatness and layering feel very connected to my practice. I love that it is a reminder that making art is always, in some way, a collaboration with all the artists that have come before you. It's all one big conversation, echoing and evolving across time.