Something Lost Project
This is the Something Lost Project.
IF FOUND…
I am not sure if this is a specific memory for a certain generation of elder millenials, but I can still remember standing on the football field of my town’s high school at 5 years old, clutching a helium balloon.
At the end of the string was a manila shipping tag, printed with blank lines to fill in my name and address and something to the effect of “If found, please write to me!”. The idea was that we could collect penpals by chance and happenstance, and to see how far our name could travel from our home on currents of air.
Fast forward several decades, and here I am - middle aged mom, artist and letterpress printer, still trying to release some essence of myself and hope for connection in return.
I’ve done several letterpress projects to this end. Combining my loves of ephemera, words, and printing, with my desire to organize, bring people together under common cause, and connect at a very human level.
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you have been part of some of those projects. And I’m so grateful! I’m launching my next participatory art project called the Something Lost Project. Part 1980s balloon release, part 1880s lost and found property tags, part our very human need to try and remember those things — an item, a feeling, a person, a place — that we have lost and make them present again by putting them into the universe.
Something Lost is collecting anonymous submissions of something you've lost and wish you could summon back to you. Something Lost is a project of Fontlove Studio.
Imagine you could find what you have lost by submitting a claim form? By putting it out into the universe, documenting it, and somehow holding on to a piece of it? Something Lost explores this idea.
Lost loves, favorite sweaters, long-ago cafes that are now high rise apartment buildings, a beloved band that broke up, a part of you that changed — all these things and more can be submitted for a claim.
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