Published with the exhibition of Meatyard’s pictures of Thomas Merton at the Louisville Visual Art Association in 2013, for the visit of the Dalai Lama to Louisville, the book reproduces all 29 photographs, with excerpts from Merton’s journals as captions and previously unreleased calligraphic works by Merton. "This series of photographs, by a 20th century master, of a 20th century seeker, is especially remarkable, because it combines the formalism and relevance of great art with the intimacy, the playfulness, the casual snapshotty sense of lost time that arises between dear friends." We cannot look at them without seeing the countdown from January 1967 to Merton’s final departure from Kentucky in September 1968 and his death in Bangkok three months later, a time of upheaval and uncertainty reflected in the journal entries. The two men also planned an experiment together: words sent by the monk, to which the photographer would answer with pictures.