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Reflection:

Paper can often be seen as a tool of communication in the form of poster, news paper, or banner. However, a lot more are seen as a waste form when drifting around Nieuwe Maas walking path. The volatility of paper can also be observed through posters weakening on the surface of walls, their corners curling, ink fading, and glue dissolving under rain.

The sound of paper flapping by the wind can be noticed when walking past

These scraps echo both presence and absence, reminders of hands that once folded, pinned, printed, or discarded them. The labor behind each sheet—cutting, transporting, designing, distributing—is erased once the paper becomes litter, yet it lingers in its traces.

Paper is unexpectedly intimate when it sticks to my shoe, reminding me of its stubborn materiality despite its fragility. Situations around paper fluctuate, depending on the contents: a poster calling for a protest, a receipt of consumption, a torn leaflet exposing layers of past events. Paper speaks quietly but insistently of cycles of use, neglect, and disappearance.