Twee prentbriefkaarten van een koninklijke rijtour door Apeldoorn en een aubade voor Paleis het Loo Possibly 1909

Here we see a couple of old postcards, glued onto a page, showing the Dutch royal family tootling around Apeldoorn in June 1909. I wonder about the anonymous person who snapped these shots. Were they excited? Overjoyed? Bored? I can imagine them, craning their neck, jostling through the crowd, just trying to get a glimpse of royalty. They probably didn't know their quick snaps would end up here, carefully preserved, a little faded, over a hundred years later. It makes you think about how every single person’s life is like that, a whole epic, even if it all ends up glued into someone else's album. It's like the quiet, unknown lives depicted in folk art. I bet they’d see some beauty in that. These images, made by an unknown photographer, make me think about how we are all constantly preserving, interpreting, and reimagining the past. We are all in conversation with each other, inspiring new ways of seeing and making.