This photo was taken on May 3, 2018. It shows a bracelet I used to wear every single day for years, until one day I lost it. It was my grandparent’s “going steady” bracelet; they had it inscribed in reference to their favorite song.
The outside says “ALAN – BODY” and the inside says “HANNAH – SOUL”.
My hand, with some kind of stamp on it to get into a party, is on my boyfriend’s jeans. I lost the bracelet a few months after it was taken. I still hope to find it some day.
Sophia Giovannitti is an artist who lives in New York. Her first book, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex was published by Verso in 2023.
