Jet Streams by Manuel Boden

Publisher: Self-published, Germany, 2023
Format: Softcover
Edition: First Edition of 100
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-605-70472-6-7

Jet Streams is an artist book by Manuel Boden compiling four specific sketchbooks produced in 2019 and later scanned and reproduced in 2023. Printed at a reduced scale, the book preserves the density, rhythm, and immediacy of the original notebooks while translating them into a fixed archival form. Boden’s practice revolves around collecting, tracing, and recontextualizing materials—ranging from drawing and photography to video and found imagery—where searching itself becomes a generative method. In Jet Streams, accumulation replaces narrative, and repetition becomes a record of attention. The book functions as both document and residue: a compressed field of marks, fragments, and temporal drift that foregrounds transience, appropriation, and the unstable life of images.