A few years ago, on a trip to Spain, I was lucky enough to stumble upon the amazing public art installations by a group calling itself Luzinterruptus. I try to keep up with their wonderful and imaginative projects around the world, but I rarely get to actually see them IRL. Somehow I missed another marvelous project this Spring in Bilbao, Spain.

The installation, titled “Denboran Zehar” or “Through Time”, utilized 5,000 recycled paper notebooks collected from area schools and then arranged in a building atrium for 25 days. The aim was to let time and weather naturally change the illuminated notebooks as part of the Bilbao International Literature Festival 2017.

photos by Lola Martinez