Welcome to this web garden. Although, on second thought, it is very small, so maybe it’s more like an allotment or a balcony or a patio.
Holly Zijderveld is a poet living-and-working-together in the place typically referred to as ‘The Netherlands’, as well as on this folded up reality that we call ‘the internet’, which is living in an incredible but definite number of places. She/they are in fact, me, hey° ᡣ𐭩 . ° .!
I make poetry on themes such as connection, collection, and computing, in the broadest ways you can understand these terms. This poetry takes the form of writing (hopefully poems, but I commit myself to writing prose more than I would like), publishing, editing, ink stamping, and sometimes textile. I am currently writing poems about our relationships with computers and each other, creating Issue 0 of Edges, writing a research paper, and making other zines and publications for holly garden (see: holly garden catalogue, below).
These themes also play into my work in technical research support, where I manage two community archives (Culture Capsule and an archive for sports in Curaçao, coming soon) and produce podcasts for the Re/Presenting Europe project.
In the past, I have studied anthropology and ethnography, and conducted research around open source machine knitting practice. Currently, I am reading a lot of Clarice Lispector and thinking about self-models. In the future, I hope to learn more about synthesis and radio.
Garden opening hours:
22-05 - Sevgi Tan will be hosting the workshop Resurrecting Networks at the Internet Archive Europe! I will be (volunteering) there in my most appropriate summer-day funeral-outfit…
29-05 - 02-06 - I will be volunteering at Leiden Shorts, as I have been every-other-year since I moved to Leiden. It will likely be my last time, and I look forward to saying goodbye to this lovely little film festival. If you’re around Leiden on these days, I would certainly reccomend coming by :D
Five most recent entries:
2026 ✪ Technological Craft, in almanac.sh
2026 ✩ Podcast production and editing, Unsettling Knowledge (since episode 28), as Technical Support Officer for Re/Presenting Europe ~
2026 ✩ Digital archive management, Sport Historia, as Technical Support Officer for Re/Presenting Europe ~
2026 ★ Extra Terrestrial Zine Fair, hosted by XPUB at Dokhuis Rotterdam
2025 ⁂ Poetic summarisation and node-taking at Symposium Universal Language I: Human-Computer Interaction
holly garden is not only this little place on the internet, it is also my publishing garden (which, thinking about it, also lives in this little place on the internet…). It is standing outside of the house, organised but unruly. Things happen here together, let’s have a barbecue, let’s try to sunbathe next to the apple tree. Listed below are the projects of holly garden. For now most of these are are.na links, but better documentation is coming!
005 Ink Stamping
004 Edges Magazine Issue 0 (currently in reading period)
003 Edges Magazine (idea pamphlet)
002 Calling Card
001 Holly Library
You can email me at hollyzijderveld [at] fastmail [dot] com. Find me on the Fediverse, at holly@pan.rent. You can also find me on are.na. I love to receive paper mail, if we know each other then please ask for my address.
This site can be dailed on the Internet Phone Book. Dial 20!
Everything on this page is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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there was a heatwave here in the netherlands, and since i’ve moved here the warm weather can only ever mean time by the water. did you know, when i made this site, the background used to be an image of the texture of water?
as of 18 May, 2026, this website is two years, five months, and twelve days old.