ven though it is not a flip-book, Jon Kessler’s The Freckles on My Back lends itself to flipping. His reverse printed close-up photographs of his freckles are like stars spangling the night sky and, with a little imagination and some quick wrist and finger action, looking at the book is almost like travelling in space and time. Kessler, best known for his sophisticated kinetic works, creates an abstract, yet somehow intimate, surface out of his own body in his spot-on (no pun intended) artist’s book.
Vivian Rehberg, Paris.

Jon Kessler
The freckles on my back
Published March 2002