In this book, Carol Peachee combines stunning photographic images of the James E. Pepper Bourbon Distilley, located in Lexington, Kentucky, with an essay on the experience of finding art among the industrial ruins. The photographs present a visual meditation on the transition of the material and functional world into artistic elements through color, texture, pattern, and light. For Peachee the abandoned distillery takes on the metaphor of object d'art, museum of art objects, and cathedral as she explores the ruins at the same time that her mother is dying of cancer. The process of photographing the deteriorating material world in transformation reveals an existential meditation on impermanence as well as a visual documentation of the distilley plant and the art that it is becoming.