Huwelijkspenning van huwelijk prinses Beatrix en Claus von Amsberg, 1966 met brief en doosje 1966

This commemorative medal celebrating the wedding of Princess Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg in 1966 comes with a little box, a certificate, and a ribbon in the Dutch national colors. I love that the artist of this work is anonymous—it's so fitting! It's as if this object has emerged out of a collective memory, made as a gift for the Dutch people. The box and the medal—they’re like formal constraints, you know? A space for containing this momentous occasion and preserving it. Making something like this, you’re probably thinking about how it will be received, who will hold it, what it will mean in fifty or a hundred years. There’s a lot of hope embedded in this little medal, a hope that I find really touching. It’s like the beginning of a story, an echo of a moment that still reverberates.