This book documents the project Historic Sight. Over the course of a year, 27 artists were invited to visually interpret different words from the Historic Site plaque. Each artist contributed a single image prompted by the word they were given.

It includes work by: Rosa Barba / Melissa Catanese / Raven Chacon / Cooking Sections / Mark Dion / Michael Dumontier / Jimmie Durham / Jason Fulford / Philip Glass / Jim Goldberg / Ann Hamilton / Pablo Helguera / Taraneh Hemami / Jonathan Horowitz / Maira Kalman / Nina Katchadourian / Micah Lexier / Carlos Motta / Keris Salmon / Ed Panar / Cornelia Parker / Jon Rubin / Alessandra Sanguinetti / Tamara Shopsin / Alec Soth / Kerry Tribe & Deborah Willis.

The book was hand-made in an extremely limited run by Clayton & Lewis. Only 60 copies are available. The book is housed in a handsome matt heavyweight box tied with a satin ribbon, a project description sheet, documentation of all 27 exhibited artworks, a large-scale, concertina print of the Historic Site plaque, and an archival photograph of the existing plaque. Each book is signed and numbered by Clayton & Lewis.

Materials: matt paper box, ribbon, archival ink, photographic paper, printer paper, cardstock

by Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis, 2023

Published by Gallery Closed. Supported by Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum.