I ended up seeing a number of broken Kindles last...

I ended up seeing a number of broken Kindles last year while volunteering in Iceland, and it prompted me to spend a fair amount of time thinking, and blogging, about them. I liked turning over the idea of it - of broken books - in my head. It was a strange concept to think through.

I eventually submitted a photo of them to the New Aesthetic, a blog that used to chronicle what they deemed a ‘new aesthetic’ brought about by the digital world melting into the physical and cultural. It seemed like the right place to put it.

I was then contacted by an artist named Sebastian Schmieg who had seen the New Aesthetic post, liked the idea, and, along with his collaborator, Silvio Lorusso, wanted to create a small print-on-demand book chronicling the phenomenon.
And so they have.

Isn’t the world a bizarre place.