Robin Kranicki and Kim Overstreet

Robin Kranicki and Kim Overstreet started working together in 1985. They worked in the same department store. Finding a common interest in making jewelery from scrap materials, they began creating brooches with miniature narrative vignettes under the Lost & Found brand. They characterize the materials for their projects as “anything we could find” in boxes in attics, flea markets, yard sales, including antiques, hardware, broken clocks and jewelry, and cheap toys. Their practice now includes the production of larger wall works.

“We continued to make our decorations from found items, which became highly sought after and eventually evolved into our current narrative works. The very idea of ​​turning junk into jewelry was the impetus for our partnership and became the title of the first article written about our work in 1985 in a local newspaper.”