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‘You See So Many Lives Lived’: Watch Artist Rose Salane Gather New Yorkers’ Lost Objects to Search for Their Owners
If you’ve ever missing an item on the New York City subway—an Airpod, necklace, pencil, or keychain—and assumed it was just swallowed up by the large transit system, assume all over again. Since she was a child, New York-dependent artist Rose Salane has been fascinated by “objects that reflect the daily actions of folks in the course of the city,” and she finds a lot of those people objects—you guessed it—from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). As it turns out, all of the bobs and baubles missing in transit are gathered by the MTA, and if they have not been claimed soon after a year, are auctioned off to the…