Bijbelverzen 1906 - 1948

Marie Jordan made this page of script, these Biblical verses, with pen on paper, somewhere, sometime. Look at the pressure she used, dark in places, lighter in others, and this gives the writing a certain rhythm, a certain kind of life. Artmaking is always a conversation with the materials, the tools, the possibilities, and the limitations. Look at the words closely. It's impossible for me to read them, I don't know this language, but I can see the shapes they make on the page. Some are tall, some small, some lean to the left and others to the right. It's a kind of dance. The letters almost seem to be holding hands! The whole thing reminds me of the writings of a slightly later artist, Cy Twombly, with whom she shares a sense of mark making that transcends language. And like Twombly, she leaves us with a piece that embraces ambiguity, and speaks without really speaking.