Twee reuzen en twee gezichten van reuzen c. 1936 - 1940

Henk Henriët made this drawing of giants with pencil on paper. Look at the energy in those marks! They're so immediate, like Henriët was trying to capture something fleeting. I imagine him quickly sketching, trying to get the essence of these giants down before they disappeared. I love how he's not precious with the lines. They overlap, they're messy, but they create a real sense of movement. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbles, how he managed to convey so much with so little. There’s a real rawness to this drawing, like we're seeing Henriët's thought process in real time. It's like he's wrestling with the subject, trying to understand it through the act of drawing. It reminds me that art-making is really about inquiry. It's a way of seeing, thinking, and feeling all at once. What do you see when you look at this drawing? What do you feel?