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Emerald Liu: Reflection

By Emerald Liu, translated by Laura Vroomen
8 November 2022 1 min. reading time Calm Before the Storm

Eighteen young writers from Flanders and the Netherlands have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. They wrote their stories in response to the question: what do you see when you look at these objects through the lens of impending doom? Emerald Liu wrote a poem about a toilet mirror, commissioned by King William I as a wedding gift for his daughter Marianne. ‘Every evening I see you appearing / read the day off your face.’

Emerald BK 1994 34 min Toilet mirror, Joseph-Germain Dutalis, 1828-1829
© Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
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Emerald Liu

Emerald Liu (b. 1991) is a writer, journalist and poet. She has written for the likes of The Millions, Drawing Matter and Far-Near. Her work taps into all the different senses, and she takes her inspiration from both science and various cultures to create an open dialogue within each piece.

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