• Dec 26, 2020
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 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 representing the baby girl that Megan Abbot and Gary Hall had in May.
I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.
Rick Koster
I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.
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.