A TEXAN woman who experienced her first snowflakes in Pittsburgh last year was surprised by the lost gloves she saw all over the city last winter. Would people not want them back? Why were people just walking past them?
So Jennifer Gooch started www.onecoldhand.com in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates, and spread some goodwill.
One of her first ones was a lambskin glove that someone had propped up on a ledge on the campus of Carnegie Mellon Un
iversity.
In its place, she left a small rectangular sticker: "Missing a glove? onecoldhand.com."
Gooch displays the gloves on the wall in her basement art studio at the university. There are 21 so far, each tacked up with a note of where it was found.
Gooch photographs each glove and puts the picture and information on her website, where people can report found gloves and request stickers. She has not made any connections with glove owners in the two weeks the site has been live, but it is OK if that never happens, she said.
"It's kind of whimsical and bittersweet," Gooch said. "It makes you feel there's this opportunity for benevolence."
Gooch would love to see One Cold Hand projects sprout up in other cities. She is working with Kati and Erich Pelletier of New York to start a similar effort there. Kati said: "I like the sense of what stories are behind those gloves, sort of the community that you never meet but you see scattered about the city."
Gooch is talking to local businesses in Pittsburgh about creating glove drop-boxes all over the city where people can leave their fabric finds.
And in the spring, she would like to show her photos in a gallery.
"If I have one person find their glove, then the entire thing is totally worth it," she said.
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