“Unraveling Secrets of the Heart: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s Journey in ‘Lost Found Kept’ Reveals the Power of Redemption”
LL: So much of Lost Found Kept is about the hold objects have over us, that objects, including photographs, have history, that they dwell within. Can you talk about what items you uncovered that you had a deep emotional response to, either positive or negative, and if you kept anything?
DDK: Oh, I kept things! Some of the artwork and the valuable antiques and as many of the photographs and papers as I could salvage. I’m the only person in the world who owns a full unbroken set of crystal glassware because it had been packed away for years. I happily use it now. In high school, I’d made a handmade book using pen and ink and watercolor illustrating a nonsense poem my grandfather used to recite to us. It had been wrapped in a plastic bag in a drawer, so it didn’t smell too badly, and I was so pleased to have that. I kept a painting from my grandmother’s house I’d always liked as a child.
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