lacuna

Title: lacuna

Photographer/s: Sonja Thomsen

Date of publication: May 2009

Place of publication: Milwaukee WI

Dimensions: 7″ x 10″

Edition size: open

Type of binding: perfect bound

Number of pages: 33

Type of paper: Mohawk 50/10 Matte

Number of pictures: 70

Type of printing: color laser print

Printer: Digi Copy

Publisher: Self – Sonja Thomsen

Designer: Dan Saal

Language: English

Category: artist book POD

Price: $30.00

Summary: Book is read both directions – first side holds the sequence of images from the installation while second side functions as a flipbook of the image fading (replicating the fading stacks in the installation).

As the word lacuna references both intellectual and physical gaps, the temporal installation titled lacuna is a metaphor for memory and aging. Several small images hang on the wall, some in stacks of reproductions waiting to be peeled away. Throughout the duration of the installation the images are removed, fade and reveal an impression in plexi of the image that was once there. Place and person become symbol and impression in the work creating an emotive narrative suspended in the gap between; a man straddling dementia, a boy in his teenage prime, hands cradling the last harvest of raspberries.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Born 1978, Chicago IL

Website: www.sonjathomsen.com

Donated by: Sonja Thomsen

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