With temperatures slowly sinking as the year heads towards winter, I am once again starting to observe the fascinating phenomenon of gloves and mittens gone AWOL. This is quite a curious phenomenon, but once you become aware of it you will begin to notice it more and more, and –in my case– start to collect examples of it, until now it has become a bit of an obsession; whenever I see a case of it, I have to take a photograph. In short, it's the curious discovery anywhere in the urban or rural landscape of a single glove or mitten that has somehow managed to escape its owner (and companion glove or mitten) and gone off on its own, then left or sometimes placed somewhere and seldom reunited with anything other than the elements. Now I can quite understand how someone may lose or forget a pair of gloves, that is very easily done even though that may look like carelessness, but one...? Can that be simply regarded a misfortune? I prefer to think the gloves/mittens are up to something –perhaps one of each pair is sensible and well-behaved and the other is reckless and eager to roam. I will be presenting the evidence under the label "Gloves on the Loose". Not as a public service designed to bring gloves back to their owners (though that would probably be a worthwhile venture), but to show the variety and ingeniousness of these rogue hand garments! Look about you - they're everywhere; perhaps they're even planning to take over the world!Location: Oslo, Norway
