In the Space of Time:
notes on book space as time metaphor in artists’ books from Prescriptions collection (2018)
[142] pp : [51] ill. ; 11x18cm., digitally printed, perfect bound.
First signed edition of 25. Second unsigned edition of 100.

A book is a sequence of spaces.
Each of these spaces is perceived at a differnet moment - a book is also a sequence of moments.

In the opening lines of The New Art of Making Books Ulises Carrión considers books as a sequential spatiotemporal experience. Indeed, books (old and new) are good at documenting time. They have done so for centuries in the form of diaries, sequential narratives (novels), biographies, coronation books, chronicles, accounts, planetary charts, etc.

In the Space of Time looks at artists books though the lens of conceptual metaphor theory and considers how artists use the space of the book as the space of time.

TIME IS SPACE is "a deep metaphor for all human beings. It is common across cultures, psychologically real, productive, and profoundly entrenched in thought and language". (Fouconnier, Gilles, & Mark Turner. \92008) Rethinking metaphor. In Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (pp 53-66). Cambridge: Cambridge UP.)