The work is therapeutic, she says. The act of actually writing down what you think you have lost and found is it s just a way of processing and sort of starting that ball rolling because there s so much going on in our heads right now, says Jones.
After she built the boxes, Jones asked her neighbors some of whom are artists and some of whom aren t to decorate them. / Sarah Silbiger for NPR
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Cecily Habimana is among the artists whose work is featured in the Lost and Found exhibit.
Cecily Habimana is the co-owner of Sew Creative Lounge, which operates out of the building behind the fence. She says when the pandemic started, they had to close their doors.
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It Used To Be Just A Fence. It Became A Tribute To Things Lost And Found In 2020 By
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It s a regular, old, chain link fence circling a parking lot in a residential community in Maryland.
Except that attached to the fence are seven wooden boxes. They look like elaborate dioramas.
It s all part of an art exhibit called Community Lost and Found â and it asks residents to consider the question: What have you lost, and what have you found in 2020?
One box is decorated with a bird s nest and a pacifier suspended in a translucent globe â representing the baby girl that Megan Abbot and Gary Hall had in May.