2006, Commissioned by Whitstable Biennale, published by Laconic
LOST is an inventory of missing things. All the objects which artist Simon Faithfull has mislaid over a period of 39 years. A simple but extensive inventory, LOST is a book that catalogues these missing objects and the strange (sometimes poignant and sometimes humorous) stories of their individual departures.
In June 2006, 500 copies LOST were deliberately left around the small seaside town of Whitstable, in the south-east of England. Each day of the festival the book surreptitiously appeared around Whitstable – on benches, in pubs, by the seashore, in the cheese counter of a local supermarket, and on the various forms of public transport that were leaving the area. When passersby found the book the first page encouraged them to take the book with them and to register where the found the book on the LOST website. When they were finished reading the book, they were then encouraged to ‘re-lose’ the book somewhere else. Of the 500 lost books 99 were registered and went on to travel around the globe in several hops as far Trinidad, New Zealand, USA,
LOST is available from: Laconic Books