frozen mitten #3.

frozen mitten

found april 30, 2008
spadina & lowther
toronto

in spite of the lack of snow, frozen mittens are still surfacing. this ones comes to me via daryl who found it on his travels through the city on an unusually cold april evening.

as a side note, i will be away from june through november and won't be able to collect mittens during that time. i am planning to really ramp the project up upon my return and through next spring. if you find them between now and then, however, do feel free to keep track and get in touch. remember, though, that the goal of this project is mitten reunion. for that reason, i would like to discourage secret hoarding (as if you kind citizens would do that).

frozen mitten # 2

frozen mitten

found april 2, 2008
christie & ashworth
toronto

this frozen mitten was being angrily tossed into the middle of the street along with the business end of a broom today as i travelled up christie street. i guess the lady doing the tossing had become tired of mittens and broom parts accumulating on her property (or possibly just a property she admires). regardless, her timing was good as i am a newly established mitten rescuer.

as a side note, i was on my way to drop off a small button order for this. if you are a youth who makes art, you might want to check them out.

the frozen mitten lost and found

what a difference two weeks make. apologies to my reader for abandoning this blog for a while. i was running an improv tournament/festival here in toronto that burgled all my waking hours.

this is the blog entry i've been meaning to make this whole time. although, it did make a little more sense two weeks ago.

frozen mitten

found march 12, 2008
front & spadina
toronto

as the ice melts on the streets and winter continues to buck its weary head, all sorts of things are melting out into the city. this seems as good a time as any to announce this little project i've had brewing for a while now - the frozen mitten lost and found.

this year, on my birthday, i lost one of my favorite mittens. it was made for me by this lady on barter and was one of a kind. i was pretty heartbroken and retraced all kind of steps all over the city but to no avail. it was gone. and yet i know it still probably exists. but the act of giving up on such a search felt like an admission that the pursuit was impossible, that my mitten was not anywhere i could find it, or that maybe it had vanished all together.

for this reason, i decided to take in wayward mittens in the hopes that someday they might be reunited with their mates. this project also spills into some more interactive/installation-based notions, too, but i still have to propose those so i've yet to find out if they will materialize.

although it probably won't really kick into gear until next winter, i figured i should post pictures of any mittens already collected since the main goal of the project is reunification. if you happen to find mittens, you can also send them to me - just make a note of when and where you found them.

if you are reading this from outside of toronto and feel the call to establish a frozen mitten lost and found of your own, please get in touch. i am also coming up with guidelines for creating sister projects.