Well, a sculpture of Queen Maxima at least, made out of 5,253 keys. Han Geijp, coordinator of the collection, and former project leader at DEMO, is responsible for the creation. The Studieverzameling is open on Mondays from 10:00, and at other times by appointment. Where does one come by 5,253 keys? Some of them came from Geijp’s old technical school in Voorburg when it was demolished. But many of them came from TU Delft, when all of the doors in the EEMCS building were fitted with new locks. “That was a lot. I asked what they were going to do with the discarded keys. Nothing!” said Geijp. So he took them to give them a second life. “I had so much material from which a symbolic link could be made between my old technical school in Voorburg, and TU Delft where I worked for years.”
Geijp decided to make a key figure to present at De Verbeelding in 2003, a cultural event in Pijnacker-Nootdorp. As a basis he started with the case of an old navigation system, with a welded frame mounted upon it. Waste perforated steel strips were used to hang the key rings on. “It was nice work you could get lost in whilst building,” he said. “So the key figure slowly took shape.” It took approximately four weeks for Geijp to complete the piece.
“With a little imagination this creation can depict Maxima. She can open doors that remain closed to others, even though she is shackled by hands and feet to the rituals of our system. A portrait of an era,” Geijp said.
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