Lost&Found - Reverence for Lost Objects
This work began with a fascination of how people when finding a lost object will pick it up and place it somewhere to be seen, so that it can be found by the person who lost it. It reflects humanity in how we are attached to our things, the stories connected to them, and how we empathize with others through knowing what it feels to lose something.
For me it shows a kindness that crosses all sorts of barriers: language, nationality, race, and brings us all together. It’s one of the small ways we are all looking out for each other in the midst of life’s chaos.
I’ve been photographing these objects since 2013 when I first came across one while adhering to some simple rules of my own–I never move an object and I never photograph an object that I have found lost and that I place. Since about the 3rd or 4th object I came across, I always photograph it twice: in close up and in situ.
It is a body of work in process that may never be completed, but it is my own cultural anthropological study that constantly makes me smile and feel a hope for humanity.
artist statement 2022
