Prentbiefkaart aan A. van der Boom Possibly 1931 - 1936

This is a postcard to A. van der Boom by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, posted in 1931. Look at this handwriting! It gives you so much insight into the artist as a person. I just love the feeling I get when I see an artist's handwriting, their shopping lists, or a quick note they dashed off to a friend, like this one. It's like glimpsing into their inner world in a way that a finished painting sometimes can't offer. It's raw, it’s unfiltered. You can see the flourish in each letter, the way the words trail across the page, almost like the marks on a canvas. It's the artist's hand, literally, doing what it does best - communicating a feeling, an idea, a moment in time. It's like the artist is saying, "Hey, I was here. This is how I saw the world." It reminds me that painting, writing, all these creative acts, they're really just ways of having a conversation, not just with ourselves, but with each other, across time and space.