A city is like a living organism, constantly growing and evolving with time.
These architectural vestiges that serve no purposes have a name.
A useless staircase at a house in Japan.
Akasegawa began to seek out these odd structures.
The following year, Akasegawa discovered a boarded up ticket window at a railway station.
One of Akasegawas friend found a gateway at a hospital that had been completely filled up with concrete.
Akasegawa and his friends began calling them hyperart.
Those pieces of hyperart were later given the name “Thomasson.”
The term comes from Gary Thomasson, an American baseball player who was traded to Tokyos Yomiuri Giants.
Thomasson was paid an exorbitant amount of money for a two-year contract.
But when he failed to perform as his managers had hoped, he was benched for most his contract.
For Akasegawa, Thomasson was both useless and maintained.
At first, Akasegawa began publishing his Thomasson photographs at a weekly magazine column.
Eventually, these photographs became a book titledHyperart: Thomasson.
Examples of Thomasson
A useless door.
Photo credit:Kunitaka NIIDATE/Flickr
A Thomasson tunnel.
