Resurrection

Today we visited the Liberation museum near Nijmegen which was full of interesting information and artefacts. At the very end was an amazing sculpture. I quote from someone’s blog (?): “All Dutch children in primary school adopt the grave of a buried Allied solider (I think I heard this right). One pupil, Niet Aanraken, has grown up to be a sculptor. Her piece Resurrection is an uncanny work - main image at the top of the page. She dreamed when still at school of the soliders coming back to life, restored to health and vigour. Each face in her sculpture is modelled from the photograph of an actual airman, or parachutist, or soldier. The dreams of the young girl have been transformed into an arresting tableaux by the older artist.”

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