Time Capsules
Where Book Sculptures asks what a book becomes, Time Capsules asks when it came from. Barer selects volumes anchored to a specific year — a Cold War almanac, a bicentennial yearbook — and lets the sculpture carry the colour and grain of its moment, sealed like a capsule no one will reopen.
Every book is a date. Long before its words, it carries the typefaces, papers, and inks of the year it was made. Time Capsules leans into that evidence, choosing volumes whose era is unmistakable and shaping them so the decade itself seems to spiral inward.
The works are quieter than their predecessors — less bloom, more sediment. They hold their colour close, as if reluctant to give up what they remember.