Blad 55 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949) Possibly 1934

This page comes from a student register of the Colonial School for Girls and Women in The Hague. It's made up of ink on paper, a collection of handwriting, signatures, and photographs pasted onto a ruled grid. The thing I love about books like this, especially old ones, is how they become a kind of time capsule. Each entry, with its precise script and faded photograph, speaks of lives lived in a very specific moment. Take the range of handwriting, for example. There’s a real personality to each signature, each name painstakingly written out. It's not just information; it's a trace of someone's hand, their presence. You see echoes of this in work by artists like Moyra Davey, who also uses photography and writing to explore themes of memory, history, and the archive. Davey’s work, like this register, blurs the line between the personal and the historical. It reminds us that art, like life, is an ongoing conversation, full of echoes and resonances.