TRACES OF FEELINGS

Traces of a Feeling (London installation, 2025)

Text works by Hampus Jan-Michael

Five papers spread across London, handwritten with white chalk on coloured paper. Traces of poetry, memory, and resistance. Each piece carries a trace of tenderness: about love, about protecting, about surviving, dreaming, and belonging.

And maybe one day I will land

In a place that understands

Where dreams aren’t lies,

And stars don’t fade

Where hearts don’t break

And hope can stay

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Protect the dolls.

The trans girls, the soft boys,

the ones who turned pain into pearls ( paint)

If beauty is rebellion,

they led the revolution

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For time to hold me like it trusts

That I belong in Wendy’s sky,

That I could fly and never ask why

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Dare to see, dare to pause

Dare to zoom in on the pulse of color

On the fleeting human moment

Dare to zoom out, to embrace history

To connect with the shared vision of our world

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Be kindness

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Time slipped.

And I tried to catch it with colour.

Cause a memory is never still.

It moves like paint before it dries.

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Traces of a Feeling turns the city into a poem,

a reminder to be kind.

Created with chalk on paper, placed temporary on walls, lampposts, and corners a public gesture of care.

(Holborn, Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Blackfriars)