This project focuses on a book that circulated for decades in a public library. Through repeated handling, its pages gradually accumulated traces of ordinary use.
While the photographs in the book remained unchanged, the object itself did not. Wear, folds, stains, and other marks became visible on and between the pages, forming a quiet record of contact. These traces were not produced intentionally, nor were they meant to preserve anything. They emerged simply through use.
Rather than approaching the book as a container of images or information, this work considers it as a material object with a life of its own. Attention shifts from what the book shows to what it has undergone. The book is not restored or corrected; its altered state is observed as it is.
ron roelandt 