As the pandemic swept the globe last year, going out for walks remained one of the few freedoms we were able to exercise here in the UK – and indeed, in many other places around the world. On such excursions, which became a ritualised part of lockdown for many, you may have chanced upon – and perhaps momentarily stopped to sigh at – more than one lost glove on the pavement or park path. 100 such sights are brought together in a new book of Polaroids by the Australian musician, artist, and author. “In January 2018, near to my home in Brighton, I found a red woollen child’s glove hanging over a sign that said ‘Church Place’,” writes Cave in the book’s foreword. ”I took a photograph of it with a Polaroid app on my iPhone. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but later that night as I was reviewing my day’s photographs, I felt its melancholy pulse and was pleased with it. The next day I passed a tan leather glove that had been placed on a railing in my street, and once again photographed it. These images began an impulse to photograph every lost glove I came upon.”
“It is remarkable how many lost gloves there are once they make themselves known. They are everywhere and all around – lost gloves longing for their partners. These single gloves are mostly seasonal and are the melancholy reminders of those who are displaced or missing or disconnected, little jolts of grief on my winter walks ... I have rescued them all but here are one hundred of the best – the most lost, the most mislaid and the most forgotten – a small melancholy meditation.“
Beautiful signed and altered Polaroid photography by Nick Cave.
Unique piece of art. Polaroid original hand-drawn details by Nick Cave.
Come with all the paper and original cardboard and protective sleeve.
Size of the polaroid : 9 x 11 cm Material: Original Polaroid This original signed Polaroid is included in the book Melancholy titled "The Little book of lost gloves" published in 2021.
The book is also included in this lot. Size: 14,35 x 17,5 cm (hardcover) Book sealed in original state.
Number of pages: 204
2021
As the pandemic swept the globe last year, going out for walks remained one of the few freedoms we were able to exercise here in the UK – and indeed, in many other places around the world. On such excursions, which became a ritualised part of lockdown for many, you may have chanced upon – and perhaps momentarily stopped to sigh at – more than one lost glove on the pavement or park path. 100 such sights are brought together in a new book of Polaroids by the Australian musician, artist, and author. “In January 2018, near to my home in Brighton, I found a red woollen child’s glove hanging over a sign that said ‘Church Place’,” writes Cave in the book’s foreword. ”I took a photograph of it with a Polaroid app on my iPhone. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but later that night as I was reviewing my day’s photographs, I felt its melancholy pulse and was pleased with it. The next day I passed a tan leather glove that had been placed on a railing in my street, and once again photographed it. These images began an impulse to photograph every lost glove I came upon.”
“It is remarkable how many lost gloves there are once they make themselves known. They are everywhere and all around – lost gloves longing for their partners. These single gloves are mostly seasonal and are the melancholy reminders of those who are displaced or missing or disconnected, little jolts of grief on my winter walks ... I have rescued them all but here are one hundred of the best – the most lost, the most mislaid and the most forgotten – a small melancholy meditation.“
Beautiful signed and altered Polaroid photography by Nick Cave.
Unique piece of art. Polaroid original hand-drawn details by Nick Cave.
Come with all the paper and original cardboard and protective sleeve.
Size of the polaroid : 9 x 11 cm Material: Original Polaroid This original signed Polaroid is included in the book Melancholy titled "The Little book of lost gloves" published in 2021.
The book is also included in this lot. Size: 14,35 x 17,5 cm (hardcover) Book sealed in original state.
Number of pages: 204
2021
