the pink highlight originals

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✨ the pink highlight original blackout poems are made from pre-loved books that I find in the free mini libraries in my neighbourhood. I carefully select the books and the pages. Then I search for words, patterns, new meanings to create new funny, inspiring or kind texts. I mark by hand in pink the words I want to keep and black out the rest. I create these in my studio in Amsterdam or when I’m travelling.✨

below you find examples of the pink highlight original texts

all the texts I have created I posted on my instagram

A collage of pages with blacked-out lines of text and pink highlighted words and phrases. Some visible words include 'believe in soul-mates,' 'I want to spend,' 'I don't know when I am,' and 'unexpected for.'

A handwritten note with black lines crossing out text, where only certain phrases are visible in pink highlights: "Sometimes," "we find ourselves," "when," "we get lost," "Maybe getting lost" and "is exactly what we need." The note is numbered 26 at the bottom.

A page from a book with blacked-out text and three highlighted words in pink reading "What if?", "What if", and "You". The page number is 166.

A sheet of paper with blacked-out text and highlighted pink phrases, including 'It's morning,' 'It's morning,' and 'Oh my God, oh my God.'

A page from a journal with blacked-out text and pink highlighted words, including "When," "was," "the last time," "you enjoyed your morning coffee," "without," "Overthinking." The page is numbered 129 and has handwritten notes at the bottom.

A page with black horizontal lines covering most of the text. Several words and phrases are highlighted in pink, including 'When was the last time you really looked at', 'the stars', '?', 'don't', 'wait', and 'Go look now.'

A book page with blacked out text and several words highlighted in pink, including 'seek,' 'people,' 'who,' 'believe,' 'in,' 'you,' and the sentence 'And never, ever let anyone dull your sparkle.'

A page with black rectangular marks and pink highlighted words reading "LISTEN," "SOMEWHERE INSIDE," "THERE IS," "EVERYTHING."

Text document with lines of text, some words highlighted in pink, including phrases like "I can't" and "But yet, I did".

A page from a book with the page number 171. It includes handwritten text at the bottom left that says '/thepinphhighlight 2026'. The rest of the page has some lines of text that are heavily blacked out, with three highlighted words: 'real friends', 'embrace you as you', and 'change'.

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You may have seen my work
on Instagram
or maybe,
you are one of the lucky ones
who has found a pink highlight,
left out in the streets,
hoping for you to find it and enjoy

I believe every pink highlight
finds the right person at the right time

In buying a pink highlight postcard,
you make it possible for me
to keep on sharing
the pink positivity
and I truly thank you for that