
virtual memorials for inanimate objects
Black & White Beaded Choker

...that I made. There was a girl going through people's bags and stealing jewelry. She stole my inhaler, too.
Last seen at the bottom of my gym bag in high school.
Rachel, Boston, MA
Labels: beaded choker, gym bag, handmade, high school, jewelry, theft
Metal Napkin Dispenser




Somebody ran off with the dispenser and scattered the napkins in the parking lot.
Last seen at the shelf by the door.
Whole Foods Market, Central Square, Cambridge, MA
Labels: Cambridge, Massachusetts, metal napkin dispenser, theft, Whole Foods Market
collecting images and stories about objects that are lost, missing, or otherwise no longer in our possession for an ongoing online exhibition of virtual memorials
of locations where lost objects were last seen.
Have a similar story you'd like to share?
Click here to submit your contribution online!Or,
download the project flyer, fill out and detach the form, and send it in, with your image (photo, drawing, etc.), to the address below.
info@thelostobject.com
P.O. Box 200584
Boston, MA 02120
Need your image back? Include a self-addressed stamped envelope and we'll return it to you as soon as possible!
Baby Cradle
Stories from Event Horizon
Set of Vinyl Monster Miniatures
Book of Poems
Silver Ring with Light Green Stone
Labyrinth Pendant
Marks & Spencer Raincoat
VOLVO Jacket
Blue Bird Brooch
Little White Fluffy Kitty Doll
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Have a story that's not necessarily object-based? Thinking more about a place or location?
Contribute to my other interactive, web-based project @ wherewearenot.org!
The Seven Things Project
How To Find Lost Objects
LOST Magazine | Where Loss is Found
Collecting Loss: Weaving Threads of Memory
This Was Lost, This Was Found
Lost and Found | The Found Bin
Found Magazine
Group Hug
Lost Something?
Evocative Objects | Sherry Turkle
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