Oldest thing: & 7 poems
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128373
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
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  alternate name: Photography, Artistic
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: art photography
about: Person
  alternate name: Beek, Ruth van, 1977-
abstract: "'My mother left me three binders with carefully copied recipes and pasted pictures. I never made any of these recipes. I kept them for other reasons. It is the care that moves me, the index, the regular handwriting, the discolored pages. What does a mother leave behind? How do you add value to the daily activities of a household? My mother died when I was fifteen. I never knew her as a woman. This has ensured me that she has always remained a mother figure. The things I learned from her were old fashioned mother-daughter things; cooking, knitting, gardening. She went to a household school and was a patient craftswoman. This is probably where my fascination with manuals and books about needlework and the household started. I learned a lot from her, but not everything. And in that incompleteness lies a valuable resource for me. Like a warm memory that you can look back on, but which is at the same time closed off and distorted by the elapsed time. That open end, the incompleteness, is in all my work.' Ruth van Beek"--back cover.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310189726
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310184043
language: eng
name: Ruth van Beek: the oldest thing
name: The oldest thing
subject of: Statement
  additional type: award
  text: Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2023 PhotoBook of the Year Shortlist.
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type: CreativeWork

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