Losing Site - Artist Book

Jessica Thalmann

Losing Site

24 pages, Edition of 50

8.5 x 5.5 inches

Inkjet Printed in full color with various handmade cuts, foldsand tears throughout

Pamphlet stitch binding with Duralar cover and slipcase 

Losing Site is an experimental handmade artist book by Jessica Thalmann examining the tricky link between photography and architecture. This bookwork brings together photographs taken throughout the United States focusing on Brutalist and Modernist architecture including Freeway Park in Seattle, Hollyhock House in Los Angeles and Keller Fountain in Portland. Various images focus on the contrast of textures and illustrate the lived experience of these geometric concrete structures being overwhelmed or subsumed by natural flora over time. 

This bookwork is a limited edition hand sewn pamphlet stitch artwork that engages a haptic sensibility by making hand-made interventions such as various cuts, tears, and folds in the pages, often confusing real and photographic interventions within the same spread.