Brief aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1923

This is a letter, "Brief aan Philip Zilcken," written in 1923 by Vittorio Pica. The marks here are not made with paint, but rather with ink. I see the way Pica's pen sort of dances across the page, each stroke a little step in a carefully choreographed process. There's a lightness to it, you know? Not just in the color of the ink, which is this soft, almost translucent green, but in the way the words seem to float on the paper. The ink is thin, almost watery, but you can still feel the pressure of the pen, the tiny variations in line weight that give the script its personality. Look at the way he forms his loops and curls, each one a little gesture, a tiny act of creation. It reminds me a bit of Cy Twombly, in the sense of the hand moving freely, elegantly, across the surface. It’s like a conversation unfolding in real-time, full of nuances and subtle shifts in tone. Ultimately, it’s in these kinds of personal objects that the true beauty of art making as human expression resides.