This page displays a selection from a larger collection of found text and photographs. All of these were found in the street and collected between about 1986 and 2025. I say ‘about’ because, while I do very occasionally still find texts, the internet has made writing on paper an increasingly rare occurrence. There are no specific criteria for collecting other than I don’t collect shopping lists.

Though the collection does cover this current transitional period during which communication has moved into the digital sphere and away from the hand-written, it was never the intention of the collection to reflect on that transition.  I was and still am more interested in the ephemeral and random nature of the texts, and the glimpses they offered into lived experiences - hence the inclusion of found photographs. That said, the increasing absence of this unmediated evidence of lives lived is a loss.