Woman has been collecting notes for twelve years on the street
Not Laura Sullivan. Ever since 2005, she’s been collecting all the random notes left by strangers on the streets.
It all started when, twelve years ago, Laura found a sticky note on the floor of a Sydney Woolworths. On one side of the note was someone’s shopping list, and on the back, a reminder to attending counselling for drug and alcohol addiction.
Laura couldn’t believe the contrast between the two sides of the note. From that moment on, she decided to hold on to every note she came across.
To this date, Laura has collected 400 old notes – some of which will be on display this month at her exhibition, Found By Laura.
Laura, who describes her note-collecting to be a ‘life project’, keeps the notes in ziplock bags. With each note, she attaches the details of when are where she found it.
She told BuzzFeed News: ‘I keep almost everything.
‘I’ve definitely thrown out notes early on that I regretted so I’ve refined how I do things. I cull the obvious crap, but keep more than I used to because you never know what others may see in a note.’
Laura has so far collected notes in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Toronto and New York – and it was New York that had the biggest impression on her.
She explained: ‘There was definitely a solidifying moment when I was living in NYC. Given the dense population, finding got interesting very fast. I looked back at the stack I’d gathered and it hit me: This is real. This is something.’
And now that her collection is ever-expanding, Laura really hopes to give some of the notes back to their original owners, and so, with the hashtag #HaveIFoundYours, Sullivan has started her search online.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/12/this-woman-has-been-collecting-notes-left-on-the-streets-for-twelve-years-6434813/
It all started when, twelve years ago, Laura found a sticky note on the floor of a Sydney Woolworths. On one side of the note was someone’s shopping list, and on the back, a reminder to attending counselling for drug and alcohol addiction.
Laura couldn’t believe the contrast between the two sides of the note. From that moment on, she decided to hold on to every note she came across.
To this date, Laura has collected 400 old notes – some of which will be on display this month at her exhibition, Found By Laura.
Laura, who describes her note-collecting to be a ‘life project’, keeps the notes in ziplock bags. With each note, she attaches the details of when are where she found it.
She told BuzzFeed News: ‘I keep almost everything.
‘I’ve definitely thrown out notes early on that I regretted so I’ve refined how I do things. I cull the obvious crap, but keep more than I used to because you never know what others may see in a note.’
Laura has so far collected notes in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Toronto and New York – and it was New York that had the biggest impression on her.
She explained: ‘There was definitely a solidifying moment when I was living in NYC. Given the dense population, finding got interesting very fast. I looked back at the stack I’d gathered and it hit me: This is real. This is something.’
And now that her collection is ever-expanding, Laura really hopes to give some of the notes back to their original owners, and so, with the hashtag #HaveIFoundYours, Sullivan has started her search online.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/12/this-woman-has-been-collecting-notes-left-on-the-streets-for-twelve-years-6434813/
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