Rawlings Glove

Steve Spencer’s Rawlings Glove tells a life story through a single generic object. We cannot let go of some objects; they remain attached to us like our most potent memories and provoke the same degree of emotion. The importance these objects hold, no matter their ubiquity (I imagine the baseball glove is one of thousands), is palpable, and they begin to feel like part of us. Their absence is as acute as their presence, and we maintain and cherish them as we might our own bodies. They remind us of our lives and the values and lessons we have learned along the way. They are symbols that represent our unique experience in the world, and, often, the most common objects assume this role as their significance to us is made even more powerful by others' inability to understand them. We wish to communicate their story and how it intersects with our own, but part of their potency lies in the fact that they are something that only we will truly understand.