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Ka(a)te Dejonckheere: D_N’T FA_L AP_RT, DO_’T BE C_NSPIC_OUS
By Ka(a)te Dejonckheere, translated by Laura Vroomen
Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors have taken inspiration from seventeenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum. Looking at these objects, what eureka moments do they see? Ka(a)te Dejonckheere wrote a poem about the shards of ceramic bowls and lids from the Dutch East India ship ‘Witte Leeuw’. ‘we hope you know that maybe it isn’t even yours, this story’
Anonymous, Shards of porcelain bowls and lids from Dutch East India trading ship 'Witte Leeuw', before 1613
© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam