The Lost and Found Booth
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I will be doing live registrations of your lost objects on Facebook
While this session is full, I'll still be working on this throughout 2020 and I'm looking for people to participate with me on-line. if you've lost something and want to tell me about it, please contact me via Facebook (kimling.morris) or Instagram on @kimlingmorris or via email [email protected]
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I lost my father on 20th Feb 2018.
In reality, his illness meant that we were losing him bit by bit over years but from that day on, we couldn't see him any more. His clothes still hang in the wardrobe which I open whenever I go back to his house. He stays in the fabrics where the cloth has thinned and become shaped from his movement, where he has stitched in mismatched buttons with his large fingers, where the frayed cuffs and collars still carry traces of his walks in the woodlands and days in the garden.
I took apart the clothes which he wore most regularly and from them, began to make a blanket using what can loosely be described as sashiko stitch techniques. I base my work on the Japanese patchwork (boro) because, despite its basis in the shame of poverty, I like how it accepts the cloth from which it is made without trying to form it or reshape it into prescribed patterns. To me, its component stitches celebrate and enhance the frayed edges, holes and other (accidental) features from the cloth's life with the result that each piece of fabric is individual but at the same time the pieces meld together coherently. I found the process of stitching into these familiar fabrics immensely comforting as it brought out so many good moments and it's that sense of stitching our conversation about the Lost that I would like to share with others and bring into the work.
In reality, his illness meant that we were losing him bit by bit over years but from that day on, we couldn't see him any more. His clothes still hang in the wardrobe which I open whenever I go back to his house. He stays in the fabrics where the cloth has thinned and become shaped from his movement, where he has stitched in mismatched buttons with his large fingers, where the frayed cuffs and collars still carry traces of his walks in the woodlands and days in the garden.
I took apart the clothes which he wore most regularly and from them, began to make a blanket using what can loosely be described as sashiko stitch techniques. I base my work on the Japanese patchwork (boro) because, despite its basis in the shame of poverty, I like how it accepts the cloth from which it is made without trying to form it or reshape it into prescribed patterns. To me, its component stitches celebrate and enhance the frayed edges, holes and other (accidental) features from the cloth's life with the result that each piece of fabric is individual but at the same time the pieces meld together coherently. I found the process of stitching into these familiar fabrics immensely comforting as it brought out so many good moments and it's that sense of stitching our conversation about the Lost that I would like to share with others and bring into the work.
Would you be willing to bring your loss to my project?
If so, please tell me something about your loss. Is it something you are glad to be rid of, like losing your inhibitions? Or is it something neutral like losing a sock or something that, as for me, has left you bereft?
What's involved?
I will ask you to send me something to represent that which you have lost. I will register your donation and stitch it into a memory blanket so the warm thoughts that can be generated from your sense of loss can be shared by all The Lost. The Lost will form their own Community of Collective Consciousness.
What sort of thing would be suitable?
You can send either an actual item or a digital representation (good if you want to put something in while not wanting to part with the actual thing). The choice of item should meet with the following limitations:
I will ask you to send me something to represent that which you have lost. I will register your donation and stitch it into a memory blanket so the warm thoughts that can be generated from your sense of loss can be shared by all The Lost. The Lost will form their own Community of Collective Consciousness.
What sort of thing would be suitable?
You can send either an actual item or a digital representation (good if you want to put something in while not wanting to part with the actual thing). The choice of item should meet with the following limitations:
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If you want to send an actual item, it needs to:
Sample-Studios, Churchfield, Cork, Ireland T23 XV50 |
If you want to send a digital representation, this can be
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What happens next?
Leave me your contact details (email or phone number if you have WhatsApp and/or Zoom) so that when I receive your donated item, I can contact you to have a "Ceremony of Inclusion". I will be giving the item a ticket number and I'll be asking you
If you're uncertain what sort of thing you can send in, email me (putting Lost and Found Booth in the subject title so I can find it easily) and we can chat about it.
Leave me your contact details (email or phone number if you have WhatsApp and/or Zoom) so that when I receive your donated item, I can contact you to have a "Ceremony of Inclusion". I will be giving the item a ticket number and I'll be asking you
- to describe what you have included and
- why you have chosen it
If you're uncertain what sort of thing you can send in, email me (putting Lost and Found Booth in the subject title so I can find it easily) and we can chat about it.
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