Skitser af sejlbåde, adresser og regnskaber 1906

This is a page of sketches of sailboats, addresses and accounts made by Niels Larsen Stevns, probably in a notebook, so no date is available. I like the raw immediacy here, the way process is so visible. Look at the density of the marks. See how the artist is thinking through the pen, so the image becomes a kind of record of a thought. The lines feel exploratory, each one searching for a form as the sailboats emerge from a tangle of lines and scribbled notes. Here, the surface of the paper almost disappears under this record of thinking. See how the artist stops, looks, then begins again. This reminds me of Cy Twombly's notebook drawings, where the act of writing and drawing becomes a kind of dance. Both Stevns and Twombly invite us to witness the unfolding of an idea, rather than presenting a finished, polished statement. Art isn't about answers, it's about the questions we ask along the way.