Authors: Danny Veys (ed.), Judith Desmyttere
Publisher: Baked Beans Editions
2024
Imagine this: we are taking you on a journey. The guide you hold in your hands will serve as a compass. It contains texts and images that lead us through a narrative that is sometimes elusive, sometimes poetic, with the flax history as our starting point. We navigate and walk along the Leie and its surroundings, but just as often, we follow in the footsteps of the figures we encounter along the way. This guide is not a reflection of a linear path; rather, it is a meander of imagination that takes shape in meaningful historical spaces, blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction through a confrontation with the past. The journey we embarked on with “The Flax Canoe Floats on the Golden River” began in a photographic studio, after which we explored different paths, and the project grew into a voyage where flax, the river, and its surroundings united into a visual polyphony.
“The Flax Canoe Floats on the Golden River” bridges the present and the past, continuously searching for and challenging the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown, the fictional and the factual.
