Krantenknipsel uit archief Philip Zilcken before 1909

Here's an idea for your audio guide: This newspaper clipping from the Philip Zilcken archive is an anonymous work of art, but more than that, it’s a fragment of life. I'm immediately drawn to the texture of the paper, its fragile, aged quality, and the way the ink bleeds slightly into it, giving a sense of time passing. It's just a small piece, a snippet announcing the death of someone named Paul Rink, at the age of 40, in Edam. The details are stark: "a severe illness weakened the strong man". There's something about the mundane presentation of such a profound event that catches my eye. The way the text is underlined, almost like a casual note, makes me think about the process of archiving, of what we choose to remember and how we do it. It reminds me of the work of someone like Sophie Calle, who also uses found documents and personal narratives to create layered, emotional pieces. Art, in its way, becomes a collection of fragments, always open to reinterpretation.