Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1916

Vittorio Pica made this postcard to Philip Zilcken at some point - I'm guessing - around 1916. Look at the way the text is layered, the way the ink bleeds into the fibrous card. It’s all about process, right? It's interesting that there are so many different marks crammed into this little space. There’s the stamp, the embossed emblem, a hand-written address, a message. The ink is so thin in places that it almost disappears. In others it is much thicker, especially in the address. You can see the pressure Pica must have applied to the nib of his pen. Look at the ‘P’ of Philip, how it extends so far beyond the other letters. It reminds me of Cy Twombly, the way he would make these big, looping, gestural marks with pencils and crayons. Ultimately, this postcard is a conversation between friends, made up of delicate layers of human experience.