Stilleven met vogelkooi (Still Life with a Birdcage)

An old birdcage crowded with tins, a green THEE canister, a Sunlight soap box, a ceramic bird, a yellow toy duck and a washboard behind. It is the collector's instinct exactly, gathering humble brocante until the objects seem to murmur among themselves. A shelf of the past that has started, faintly, to watch you back.