Jennifer Gooch, who is pursuing her master of fine arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University, has started onecoldhand.com, a website that is like an online dating service for lost gloves.
One of her first ones was a moist, lambskin glove that someone had propped up on a ledge on campus. She was worried about taking it at first. What if the owner came back to claim it?
In its place, she left a small rectangular sticker. A drawing of a black glove is scrawled on it and says, "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 push pins. Small yellow Post-it notes and slips of scrap paper hang there, too, chronicling where each was found.
Gooch would love to see One Cold Hand projects sprout up in other cities. She's working with two women in New York to start a similar effort there. They hope to have onecoldhand-nyc.com up and running soon.
Gooch is even talking with local businesses about creating glove dropboxes all over the city where people can leave their fabric finds.
What is amazing about this website is the popularity it has recevied from the press: The New York Times, Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette and Tribune-Review, USA Today, and the original Associated Press article picked up by 128 papers/sites and counting.
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