Annotaties c. 1909

This page of annotations was made by George Hendrik Breitner, but when exactly remains a mystery. I like to imagine this page as a place where thoughts gather like little clouds. It's like the artist's mind is a pinball machine, and these scribbles are where the balls come to rest. There's a list of addresses, some poetic musings, and a bunch of numbers. I wonder, what did each mean to Breitner? What was he hoping to remember? Each mark carries the weight of intention, a little burst of energy captured in graphite on paper. It reminds me that art isn't always about the finished product. Sometimes, it's about the messy, in-between spaces where ideas take shape. It makes me think of Cy Twombly's sketchbooks, those beautiful, chaotic landscapes of the mind. Artists are always building on each other, you know? We are all just trying to make sense of the world, one scribble at a time.