1997-1998
To remember the unclaimed dead of Chicagos catastrophic 1995 heat wave, I used information from the county medical examiners office to map and photograph their homes. I knit each person a pair of mittens, labeled with his or her name, address, and birth date.
Jon Anderson of the
Chicago Tribune wrote
Mittens Knit a Tribute... He included this piece in the book
City Watch; Discovering the Uncommon Chicago, published in 2001.
All photos taken by Ruyell Ho