the blue hour is a new ‘book of hours’ from an ongoing series by Daou that references medieval illuminated manuscripts. These works examine different aspects of temporality, while interrogating the obsessive human desire to hold the days of our lives in our hands.
This book explores the language surrounding ‘the blue hour’: the period approximately forty minutes before sunrise and fourty minutes after sunset. The ambiguity of this particular time, which is neither day nor night, is associated by turns with foreboding and possibility. Daou has culled the language used in this piece from history, mythology, literature and song.