Eind 2017 nodigde Bertine Bosch van Kunststation Delden kunstenaars uit “een Bagagekunstwerk in bewaring te geven”. Aanleiding was de feestelijke heropening in Kunststation Delden van de Wachtkamer Eerste en Derde Klasse en van het vroegere Bagagedepot op de historisch juiste locatie. De expositie maakte deel uit van het langlopende project BLIKveld 3d ‘Reis door de tijd’ by MIKC, een concept van Janneke Kornet.

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Jan van Nijlen’s poem ‘Message for he travellers’ had been hanging in my work-place for a long time – ‘Never board the train without your suitcase full of dreams’… Sometimes life is simple. In my ‘Suitcase with dreams’ I have visualized elements from the poem.

Message for the travellers

Never board the train without your suitcase full of dreams
then you’ll find decent accommodation in every town.

Sit quietly and patiently beside the open window:
you are a traveler without a name.

Search in the past for your sweet child’s eyes,
look nonchalant and keen, dreamy and elated.

All you see growing on the black spring land,
be convinced: it was planted just for you.

Have salesmen say a few words about
film censorship: God smiles and chooses his hour.

Greet the station masters behind their green railings graciously,
because without their signals not a single train would ever leave.

And when the train refuses to steam on, at the very expense of
your joy and hope and hard-earned money,

keep calm and open your suitcase: draw things from what is in
and you will find that not a single hour is lost.

And should the train arrive at a strange place,
which you have never heard of in your life,

then you have reached your goal, then you will learn what
travelling really means for wanderers and the true sages…

And most of all do not be surprised that, along ordinary trees,
a very simple train takes you to the heart of Rome.

Jan van Nijlen
Translation: Henk Francino