{"id":5055,"date":"2022-03-23T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annemiekoenen.com\/uncategorized\/herinneringenboek-deel-1\/"},"modified":"2023-02-05T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T11:53:22","slug":"memorybook-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annemiekoenen.com\/en\/blog-en\/memorybook-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of my mother – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a story in several parts.
Read the other parts here:

Intro<\/a>
Part 1<\/a>
<\/a>Part 2
<\/a>Part 3<\/a>
Part 4<\/a>
Part 5<\/a>
Part 6<\/a>
Part 7<\/a>
Part 8<\/a>
Part 9<\/a>
Part 10<\/a>
Part 11<\/a>
Part 12<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 13<\/a>
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My mother passed away in 2008 and I have been toying with a memory book about her for a long time now. Due to the death of my father in December of last year, this now comes to the fore.
The thought of capturing a human being in a compact thing, which may last for another generation, is a pleasant thought to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since my parents were together for almost 50 years, my memories of both of them are intertwined.
Thus, working on this book, here and now, is certainly a grieving process. A mourning for my father and also a mourning for the loss of both parents.
I experience this as a pleasant way of grieving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the years I have always collected all kinds of things, such as e.g. handwritten notes, from both.
Partly as a result of clearing things up and taking care of things, a desire arises to commemorate, to honor such a life.
Photos and notes give an idea and invite you to do a little research. Now people from that generation are still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This memory book in which textiles – felt – and paper are linked is very suitable for Mom with her great love for textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad will also have a book, perhaps in paper form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The silk cloth I used in the cover is one of hers. At the time, I used the same cloth when making the urn casing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text is a handwritten text, which she wrote in a book about plants, which she gave me as a present.
Embroidering her handwriting I discover patterns. The distance between the letters and the consistent way in which she writes the different letters.
That feels very close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the back of the first felted page.
Because of the techniques I use here, I can’t start with the first page until it’s finished.
My papers, handwritten text, on the right, are completely drafted. It will probably take a long time for the written pages to become final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the felted page is finished there will be a large photo and I can already tell that it will be much nicer than what you would think on the basis of the above small photos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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