Brief aan Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk Possibly 1905 - 1926

This "Brief aan Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk" by F. Ritter is all about the handmade, you can tell by the mark-making, a kind of choreography of script, with its dark and light, and varying pressure. I can almost feel Ritter’s hand moving across the page, the ink bleeding slightly into the fibers. The texture, the surface—it's all so immediate, like a direct transmission of thought. There’s something about the physicality of the ink on paper that gets me, the way it captures the energy of the moment. Look at how the writing bunches together in the center, like a dark, pulsing knot, and then thins out towards the edges. It’s almost like a map of the artist’s attention, where the most important ideas are given the most weight and density. This piece reminds me of Cy Twombly's scrawls, these meandering marks that somehow manage to convey both chaos and a weird kind of order. It's about embracing the messy, the imperfect, the ambiguous.