Womankind – August 2019

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Søndergaard then set out on what would become an administrative feat - that of gaining access to the
bonnets from various Danish museums. The process took years. At the same time, she lined up girls from her
daughter’s class at school. “This bonnet, an old dead thing, and the girls would be placed in one image, like
women ‘meeting in time’ - it was like bridging all these many years.” The school girls selected their favourite
clothes to wear, and bonnets and clothes that matched were arranged for the shoot.

21 Artist LOST BETWEEN WORLDS

Søndergaard then set out on what would become an administrative feat - that of gaining access to the
bonnets from various Danish museums. The process took years. At the same time, she lined up girls from her
daughter’s class at school. “This bonnet, an old dead thing, and the girls would be placed in one image, like
women ‘meeting in time’ - it was like bridging all these many years.” The school girls selected their favourite
clothes to wear, and bonnets and clothes that matched were arranged for the shoot.


Artist LOST BETWEEN WORLDS
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