189,424,977 bytes, 17,853,774 bytes, 68,545,869 bytes explore the artifacts generated by repeatedly compressing an image, a occurrence known as generation loss. Each book is made by starting with the same image of a Catalpa leaf, and converts it into a different file type (WebP, BPG, JPG) and then back into a PNG, 3,000 times. Each generation, more artifacts begin to appear. Every 20 generations, the image is saved and put into its respective book.

The printed books bring the digital phenomenon of generation loss into the physical world, and invite readers to look more deeply into the compression artifacts. Not only can they stop and look closely at the artifacts that they would have normally scrolled past, but they can also flip through and view the progression of the generation loss.