Lost and Found

While executing this exercise, I didn’t have a specific narrative or meaning in mind when I arranged these objects, and chose to assemble instinctually. The lack of structure was both freeing and a little cloudy. I love this old, used glove and card filing drawer I found at Austin Creative Reuse. The glove had obviously experienced years of labor along with its wearer, and the drawer had once been a part of a set acting as an organizer and then lost at some point in its past. They reminded me of Aoife Monk’s observation, in her article “Objects”, of a human skull used as a prop in a famous production of Hamlet that contained “a fascination as much for what it refuses to tell us, for its uncanny muteness, as for its revelation of performances past.” These items contained their own biography, but like the skull, they weren’t revealing it. I filled the gloves with bits and bobs of keys, buttons, metal findings, etc. Maybe I was using those as metaphors for an unexplained story? As if the glove was filled with some sort of physicalized experience, the bits and bobs being the experience.

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