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Finding Inspiration in the End of the World
The newest addition to Fensterstock's rich catalog of influences is The Book of Miracles, a sixteenth-century luxury manuscript. It belongs to a larger category of apocalyptic albums, a type of publication that became popular as more and more people began reading the Bible in the wake of the development of the printing press. The Book of Miracles details a wide range of events marked by extreme natural conditions, believed to be the result of divine intervention: the deluge that necessitated Noah's ark, plagues of locusts, skies with multiple suns, stars falling from heaven, snow in summer. One image -- a fiery comet appearing at the time of Muhammad's birth over the city of Constantinople -- serves as a key reference for The totality of time lusters the dusk. |