Narrator: Curator Luis Pérez-Oramas:
Curator Luis Pérez-Oramas: This work marks a turning point in Joaquín Torres-García’s career, when he approached and embodied a totally modern style in his work. “Hoy” means today. And_ Holy _is both a drawing and a collage. It represents clearly time—time through the figure of the clock—but time also through the insertion of dates, but also time, because the title, which actually refers to the present moment, to the moment when the beholder is seeing actually the work.
Narrator: Torres-García incorporates a number of other elements, like transportation tickets that allude to movement and a black circle at the center to suggest an eye.
Curator Luis Pérez-Oramas: All these elements are particularly telling vis-à-vis the meaning of the work as a key for time, a key for movement, and a key for vision._
Narrator: Along the top is the alphabet, the building blocks of written language.
Curator Luis Pérez-Oramas: It’s a structural layering of the visual experience—the idea that when we see something, we don't see something in its flatness, but that we see, with the entire body, an entire layering of these potential visual elements.