In February 2007 I began soliciting stories from the general public, both through material invitations and an on-line call, about objects that are lost, missing, or otherwise no longer in their possession for a primarily web-based exhibition of virtual memorials. What began as an effort to express some of the guilt I felt after my grandfather died, several years after getting rid of a briefcase he'd given to me as a graduation gift, eventually grew into a more collective effort. I became interested in the irrational affection we feel towards inanimate objects as well as the narrative and meaning that get attached to these otherwise mundane things over time. I rendered these objects ephemeral through the collected stories. My primary intention was to memorialize these narratives, but the project also nodded, both in its title and structure, to some of the key developments of conceptual art of the 1970s as it related to the status of the art object and the ongoing tension between the object and the idea.
In Spring 2008, I reconfigured the project as part of the public art project Event Horizon, organized by Brooklyn-based artist Jennifer Schmidt.
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