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The totality of time lusters the dusk
2020
glass, Swarovski crystal, quartz, obsidian, onyx, hematite, paper, Plexiglas, wood, cement, lath, and mixed media
This site-specific installation, created for the 2020 Invitational, transforms the Renwick's galleries into earthly and heavenly realms. Rain clouds and a comet, complete with streaming tail, hover over a richly detailed garden. Fensterstock encrusts the objects that make up this glittering, yet ominous, skyscape with a dazzling mosaic of obsidian, glass, and crystals. She harnesses these elements to refer to scrying, a practice that uses dark reflective surfaces to see visions of the future.
The totality of time lusters the dusk is Fensterstock's first work to explore how weather and celestial activity have been used as metaphor, an especially potent idea in our current age of extreme weather and changing climate amid a devastating global pandemic. Although this new direction came before the appearance of the 2019 coronavirus, the foreboding and destabilizing beauty of Fensterstock's work takes on additional meaning in a reality where the myth of certainty has been exposed as fallible.
Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery |