Hop — If My Love Is a Clock

This limited edition book, co-published by Studio Route 29 and Soap Library, contains a broad collection of artworks, poetry, and music, complete with a hand-painted cover and a playable 7" flexi disc pressed with the title track "If My Love Is a Clock" by Hop.

Abiding, here on earth, is to be held in what comes and comes back around: hours, revolutions, weeks, coffees, tides, seconds, springs, rooster, peeing, gas station, rent, full moon, arousal, fall, taxes, nail-cuttings, grass-trimmings, berry-pickings, vacuuming, cooking dinner. Our passage through time, or its passage through us is… all of it to the degree that it's also maybe nothing at all, which is why visualizations and manifestations of the experience of being in time captivate us.

In this publication, we wander about a plane on which a few delineations are placed: Love, Time, Devotion, Repetition, Boredom, Erotics. We ruminate (like the cows and the deer) on the ways these are entwined.

Does Love suffuse Time?

The works in this book perk our senses towards some ways that slippery Time and Love might be located and perused for a moment. As our breath passes and repasses our humming lips, we count tenderly on. One, two, buckle my shoe, three, four, shut the door, five, six…

This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition If My Love Is a Clock at Bruno's (58-42A Catalpa Ave, Ridgewood, Queens, May 23 – June 28, 2026), and features artwork and poetry by: BJ Armour JR., Nadair Asghari, Rich Auth, Curtis Bryant, Cooper Campbell, Mary Helena Clark, Brian Dyer, Bill Eppinger, Tyler Finnie, Michael Griffith, Hop, Katie House, Rachel Huber, Amanda Jasnowski Pasqual, Shanice Lambright, Killian McMahon, Rebecca Previl, Sarah Pucci, Julia Radios, Oswald Saenz, Hailey Schumacher, Serena Scott, Nicole Storm, Danny Thach, Brent Taylor, Dan Tran, John Tursi, Victor Van.