Miriam Reeders' Book 'Een glorieus soort krimpen' Documents Artistic Response to Cancer Diagnosis

Artist Miriam Reeders began creating drawings following her late 2023 lung cancer diagnosis after moving from a major city to a Veluwe village five years earlier. Her work, featured in the book 'Een glorieus soort krimpen,' shifts from depicting people struggling to find their place to capturing someone who knows exactly where they are. Reeders continues to draw everyday scenes with humor while valuing moments others overlook. The book references poet Mary Oliver's 'Don't hesitate' and is available through bookstore Savannah Bay's website. Drawings include titles like 'Eend,' 'Grief,' 'I wish I could make you laugh,' 'How Hard,' 'I Remember Mountains,' 'I Remember Everything,' 'Leverwaarden,' 'Manifestatie,' 'Pijnbox,' and 'Bad Day for Batman.' The article, written by Eva Meijer in December, uses Dinamo's Arizona variable typeface and discusses themes of incomprehensible design shared between friends, including Christmas decorations and cutlery clocks. A personal narrative describes chasing an orange apocalyptic sky to the Koreaduin dunes, realizing nature cannot be consumed like cinema. Approaching her fiftieth birthday, the author confronts mortality while seeking new definitions of future and life through forest cycling and encounters with deer.