O



O is a self-published book that compiles two practices: Sunrise Commitment and Real Life Magic.

From April 17 2017 to April 16 2018 I told myself I would watch the sun rise; I called this practice the Sunrise Commitment. For one year I woke up an hour before the sun was set to cross the horizon. During this hour I recorded my heart beat, photographed the sky as it shifted from dark to light, and wrote about the state of my body and the state of the sky.
Real Life Magic is a way of looking at the world and noticing those things that strike awe. Whether that awe appears out of a gap of understanding, from a moment of incomprehensibility, or a feeling of awe despite fully understanding what you're seeing.

Both are labors of looking and looking again at the same; looking again at the same to notice the difference.







Credits:
Self-published 250 copies, 2018
Concept, writing, images by Erin Hill
Design by Laura Pappa
Co-produced by DAS Theatre