The bigger the collection, the more I begin to understand the value of today’s handwritten notes. Why do we still handwrite on paper when our phone is always with us? In this ever growing collection you will see numerous ways of why we still choose a handwritten note, over a digital one. Some examples I have found:

• To not forget information

• To say that you are sorry when your digital device has been taken away

• To remember your groceries

• To remind yourself what is important to you

• To write an intimate text to someone you like

• To keep a secret

• To show love

• To order your thoughts in a chaotic moment

• To provide context with a gift

• To get something off your chest, and then burn the only existing evidence

  In times when I find little notes on the streets, I start looking around in my house. Having kept a lot, I find notes I got for birthdays from my grandfather, from my sister when we were children and from people I had have forgotten about long ago. They are precious, as they contain the person who wrote it in them. They are in the handwriting, words and in the paper. So I not only help myself remember, I also get to meet a lot of Rotterdammers, in an intimate special way. Leaving me wonder who they are, what they are going through in life and how we are connected through this little piece of paper.
  
  
  

  
  
  

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