This project was inspired by a conversation with my friend and artist, Iviva Olenick.  She a textile artist, was discussing a project with "discarded" textiles.  As I am often walking around, I began seeing "lost" textiles/articles of clothes/gloves and taking pictures of them.  I told Iviva, there was something so sad about the lost items and that I loved this as a photo project.  As I began documenting lost items, there were subtle nuances in what I was seeing.  The lost item, in its fallen state, departed from its owner on the way to its next journey, only to be forgotten, not a priority.  There were also lost items "placed", so neatly, in hopes of the owner returning to reclaim their item.   A caring person had picked up an item that was lost and placed it, seemingly near the scene of incident, with, I have to and want to believe, the notion that the owner will remember where they lost their item.  These photos have a sense of the owner, but in someways more is revealed about the finder and the way in which the item is placed, or arranged.  Then the gloves.  Strewn with blatant disregard, mangled, as if the street is a trash can or very simply the home of the gloves.  The configurations are gruesome.  They are in pairs and singular, rubber and heavy duty.  Each of these instances evokes different feelings, at times making the story more illustrative.  I shoot some items close-up for the simple purposes of capturing the details of the journey of being in the state of "lost in transit".  It is clear the items have been lost for a period of time, never clear how long, but rarely newly lost.  That aspect also only furthering the depths of the story of loss.  Other times I do take a picture of the area, because there are two dynamics that add to the story, first is the broader location and second is the color dynamic.  In the combinations of color, location and the state of the item lost in transit, I see a sweet, sad story.  Often when I pass by the same place where I saw an item, they are gone, and the story continues for me.  Who took the item?  Did the owner come back, or does the item have a new life, with a new owner?