Magdeleen van Eersel

A sleeping woman is painted on the cover of this wooden box; her feet stick out from under the blanket, her one hand half covers the title of the poetry collection Slauerhoff's original line can be found in, titled "Serenade".

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Inside the box lies a small bundle of poetry, made of bedlinnen (the pages) and a woollen blanket (the cover). On the sheets of bedlinen I wrote poems in Dutch and English, which were inspired by my own dreams.

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The title for this work was inspired by the first line of a poem by the famous Dutch poet, J.J. Slauerhoff. 

By replacing just four letters, the line's meaning changed entirely, while still echoing the literary rhythm and sound of the original poem.

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I created this object in response to a call for artists, who all received a same sized wooden box, to work on for a literary themed group show, in Een Bunder Kunst, in 's Heer Arendskerke, The Netherlands.

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