celebrated architect frida escobedo’s meditation on how light transforms and shapes the built environment.
a modern exegesis of this extinct devotional practice: a project in which twenty-four objects were photographed at different intervals of time to capture their evolution, making a new calendar of matter and light. as humanity has transitioned to a secular understanding of time in which hours are organized and conceived in terms of productivity, the book of hours interrogates the place of contemplation in our era, its possibility and necessity. through this book―a public display of a private collection of objects―readers are invited to contemplate these arrays of matter and experience the ways in which they once interacted with light, that burning needle in time’s template.
112 pages. 7 x 0.47 x 12.5 inches