If Volume I whispers of faded opulence, this second volume deepens the meditation — moving between cathedrals of industry and palaces of devotion. Here, cavernous mills stand beside chapels illuminated by fractured glass; vast palazzi rest in stillness while turbine halls lie quiet, their purpose long departed. Each image traces the arc of human ambition — from the sacred to the industrial — now surrendered
to time.

What emerges is a reflection on impermanence and endurance. These pages honour not only architecture and craftsmanship, but also the lives once sustained within them. Matt’s lens transforms rust, dust, and silence into poetry — revealing that beauty does not vanish when function ceases, but exhales its last breath in the stillness of forgotten space.