Sincere Messages is a collection of communiques found and photographed in the real world. Some are want-ads or "lost cat" type broadsheets. Others are harder to pigeonhole. I find them in all sorts of public settings, stapled to phone poles or taped in doorways or scattered on the pavement. Their audience is by nature approximate.

What joins them is that they all have heart. They are written directly and with sincerity, and with no purpose other than to communicate the author's view to the world. Most but not all are handwritten.

This seems the opposite of the vast majority of messages encountered in daily life, most of which are polished and edited, and designed to manipulate the audience in some way. Instead of giving a sense of the author most such writing seems stale and robotic, usually written with the goal to shape the reader into some form or cause them to take a certain action. Advertisements are the most obvious example, lacking any sincerity whatsoever. But the description extends to political statements, magazine articles, email, newspaper reporting, graffiti, and just about every other written text. They tend toward the clean, the the artificial, the proofread.