Brief aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1912

Sander Pierron wrote "Brief aan Philip Zilcken" on paper in 1912; it's a letter from one artist to another. The marks here—the handwriting—are a process in themselves. I mean, think about it: each word, each curve of the letters, is a little decision, right? And the ink? It’s not just black; it’s got this depth, like looking into a dark pool. You can almost feel the nib of the pen scratching across the page. It’s so intimate, like a little performance captured in ink. The writing veers from thin to thick, racing down the page. It reminds me that making art, making anything really, is about laying down marks and seeing where they lead. It makes me think of Cy Twombly’s scribbles, how they turned writing into a kind of drawing. It's all just marks, gestures, open to interpretation, and endlessly fascinating.