Absence: artist book by J. Meejin Yoon
“2004 winner of I.D. Magazine’s Design Distinction award, Absence is the third book to come out of Printed Matter’s Publishing Program for Emerging Artists. Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer… created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only “text” consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss.” —Printed Matter, Inc.
Published in 2003 in an edition of 2000; this copy shows light dirt and signs of handling. [PB10]
$ 250.00
A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only “text” consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss.” —Printed Matter, Inc.
