Despite weathering, shapeshifting, changing in temperature or volume, natural chronoglyphs remain present signs of time’s passage and cycles, even if we forget to read them as we desensitize to their subtlety.

The Field Guide of Chronoglyphs defines an “alphabet” of unlearning and relearning how to sense and read time of/and place. Field-based information on temporal matter is accompanied by field exercises and interactions that invite mindfulness and attentiveness to time cues and their subtle changes.

The field guide taxonomizes and analyzes different (im)material Chronoglyphs: Asphalt, Birdsong, Clay, Dust, Flowers, Glass, Metal, Moisture, Moss, Rust, Sand, Shadow, Skin, Soil, Stone, Sunlight, Traffic, Wind, along with Wood, Bone and Hair as speculative alternative piezoelectric material units of time to standard quartz seconds.