Baby Sock, Glen Canyon Park - Eric Henry (San Francisco, CA)

Baby Sock, Glen Canyon Park Eric Henry (San Francisco, CA) Inkjet print, 36” W x 24” H   Artwork: Baby Sock is taken from a series called “Lost & Found” – a title whose double-meaning points to one of life’s everyday pitfalls as well as to something at the core of human drama. The series features twenty-one lost articles of clothing, photographed first as I found them, and then again in my home, after being sterilized, laundered, and placed in the context I felt best showed due consideration: a coat rack for a scarf, a shelf for a sweater, my hands for an orphaned baby sock. Each garment is an intimate stand-in for a person who has suffered a loss, as casual as an accidentally dropped hat, or as profound as homelessness, mental illness, or the countless ways a person can be ostracized or mistreated. And attempts at restoration have fallen woefully short: holes and stains remain, garments remain forever absent from their owners. This work points to the enduring grie