Lundstrøm stående bag den siddende fru Lundstrøm. Studie til det såkaldte bryllupsbillede 1921 - 1924

This study for a wedding picture by Vilhelm Lundstrom is all tentative, a whisper of what might be. I can imagine him, pencil in hand, circling the page, coaxing these figures into being. There is a lot of rubbing out and redrawing, as he searches for a form. Look how the marks hover around the seated figure. She seems to be emerging from the ground of the paper, from a cloud of graphite dust. What's so cool about this drawing is that the faces are blank, like an invitation for us to project our own feelings onto them. It reminds me a little of other artists I admire, like Giorgio Morandi, who endlessly reworked the same subject matter in search of something essential. I think Lundstrom is onto something here. He knows that in art, as in life, it’s often the process of searching, of trying to capture something elusive, that truly matters.