Lost & Found Drawings

For 3 weeks in August 2009, Molly Rausch created a Lost & Found Drawing Booth on Main Street in New Paltz, New York. There she collected written descriptions of things people had lost, then made drawings based on the descriptions, and mailed the drawings of the lost items to their respective owners.



Rausch received over 75 responses, ranging from the concrete to the esoteric. Her project plays with that tactical space between words and pictures, object and atmosphere, self and other. The finished drawings answer their queries in ways that are sometimes serious, teasing, laugh-out-loud funny, and poignant.



Many thanks to Simon Draper's ongoing project Habitat for Artists, Ecoartspace, and all who participated.