Ontwerpen voor elektrische lampen c. 1905

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made these designs for electric lamps, with pencil on paper. I’m immediately drawn to the geometric shapes that Cachet sketches, the cones and circles, which feel like an architect playing around with ideas. It’s the kind of drawing where you can see the artist thinking through line, testing out spatial relationships, and letting the image emerge as they go. I imagine Cachet, in his studio, surrounded by tools and materials, pausing to jot down these ideas as they come to him, like a visual brainstorm. There’s something so intimate about seeing an artist’s process laid bare like this. It reminds me that art-making is as much about the journey as it is about the destination, and that every artist, no matter how skilled, is always experimenting, always learning.