Springend paard met het hoofd naar achteren gedraaid in een kader met op de achtergrond golven. 1937

This drawing of a horse with its head turned back was made by Leo Gestel with pen in ink. You know, looking at the horse, I imagine Gestel being really decisive. The dark, almost brutal marks really give the horse movement as it leaps forwards. And those horizontal marks behind suggest the waves that gives this horse its energy! I wonder if Gestel was inspired by Franz Marc's Blue Horses? I bet they had a lot to talk about, and maybe a secret language. Like, I think they both would have understood how a line can be so much more than just a line. It can be feeling, it can be speed, it can be the wind. I've always believed that paintings are a form of embodied expression, they embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.