[NetBehaviour] Lost & Oodlala

[Edward Picot]

Tamar -

I agree with Alan, the Oodlala project is beautiful too, and the 
contrast with 'Lost' is fascinating. The 'Lost' project is mostly about 
people's experiences of losing things, or experiencing loss - the 
Oodlala project is more about the history of the things themselves, and 
from it you get a sense of how objects can sometimes travel through 
history and geography, meaning different things to different people in 
different contexts - accumulating stories and associations, yet somehow, 
especially in the case of beautiful objects, retaining a core identity 
of their own, which seems to shine more strongly as they pass through 
more pairs of hands, as if they were being polished by the transit. It 
puts me in mind of 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes', Edmund de Waal's book 
about a collection of Japanese netsuke that has belonged to his (Jewish) 
family for a century and a half, right through the period of Nazi 
persecution. De Waal says on his website "How things are made, how they 
are handled and what happens to them has been central to my life for 
over thirty years... How objects embody memory - or more particularly, 
whether objects can hold memories - is a real question for me."

Edward