James Mullen
Surface Tension #5, 2025
Ink on Yupo
7 x 5 inches
The traditional Book of Hours was a hand crafted, personal guide to devotional practice for the faithful. Due to both the material cost and the time intensive nature, they tended...
The traditional Book of Hours was a hand crafted, personal guide to devotional practice for the faithful. Due to both the material cost and the time intensive nature, they tended to be small and intimate. Also because of this, the sense of the hand was paramount, in both the imagery and the calligraphic text. These works explore the relationship between drawing and photography in this context, and the idea of nature as a site for spiritual reflection.