#augsburg book of miracles

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Unknown artist, Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 28, c. 1552

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“After Storm in the Fen”, 2024, Oil on canvas

"Squall Lines", 2024, Oil on canvas

For Rachel MacFarlane’s exhibition, Coming Events Cast Their Light Before Them, at Hollis Taggart, she has painted several dreamlike landscapes based on her travels to places impacted by climate events. She first creates maquettes from her observations (three are on view) and then uses them as the basis for the paintings.

From the press release-

At its core, MacFarlane’s work is about lamenting the loss of specific landscapes through creating and depicting new worlds where humans are no longer the protagonists. MacFarlane spends much of her time immersed in unique geographical environments – often ones that have been heavily impacted by climate change-related weather events. While working on her newest body of work, MacFarlane spent extensive time in places ranging from the Adirondacks to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Maine, and from Prince Edward Island right after it had been hit by Hurricane Fiona to Clearwater, Manitoba during unprecedented flooding. As has always been her practice, MacFarlane does not document while she travels, instead preferring to absorb the atmosphere of a place and spend time really immersed in its sights and sounds. Upon returning to her studio, MacFarlane transforms her observations into three-dimensional maquettes created out of paper, paint, and plastic.

As MacFarlane describes it, a lot of play takes place at her collage table, as she manufactures new spaces based loosely on the spirit of specific ones, drawing on a myriad of influences from theatre and architecture to the world-building of science fiction literature and movies. The paintings in this show were specifically influenced by MacFarlane’s research into the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a manuscript depicting celestial and weather phenomena made in Augsburg, Germany in the sixteenth century. MacFarlane was moved and inspired by how these anonymous illustrators centuries before her were also dedicated to tracking warning signs in the landscape and to recording them in creative ways.

While she describes the model-building as a distancing method, it is also one that creates intimacy, as the scale shift to a shallow box model leads to the creation of a miniature world we can literally hold in our hands versus the enormity of the environment. After MacFarlane distills the memory of a place into an object, she further transforms it into its final form on the canvas, using bold colors and thick brushwork that highlights the painterliness and artifice of her landscapes. As art critic Barry Schwabsky notes in the catalogue essay, these multiple translations and transformations allow MacFarlane to “operate with and against flatness and depth, illusion and physicality, naturalness and theatricality… Her work gives pleasure but also warns that with all these unavoidable antitheses, the choice of one pole or the other would be hopeless, and we have to learn to live with the tensions between them.”

This exhibition closes 5/25/24.

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Description of an astrological event from 1009 CE – Augsburg Book of Miracles // Bitter Water – The Oh Hellos

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☀ Augsburg Book of Miracles

The Augsburg Book of Miracles (German: Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch , also known simply as The Book of Miracles) is an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century

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sketch based on illustration from Augsburg Book of Miracles

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13 days of witches: the Weathermaker of Scholomance

"If I command the moon, it will come down; and if I wish to withhold the day, night will linger over head, and again, if I wish to embark on the sea, I need no ship, and if I wish to fly through the air, I am free from my weight." — Aglaonice of Thessaly

Concealed within the mountains of Romania, deep underground, is said to exist the Scholomance, a school of arcane learning taught by the Devil himself. Ten students are accepted at a time for a period of seven years, during which they are instructed in the secrets of the universe. At the end of this term the Devil selects the most gifted from among the school's graduates to become Weathermaker. The newly-minted Weathermaker, riding on the back of a great, many-headed dragon, flies through the skies bestowing rain and storms, until the next graduate is chosen to succeed them.

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A visual explanation of why stars fall on Earth. Details of The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century, anonymous author-ess.

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Choose Something Like A Star

O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud – It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says, “I burn.” But say with what degree of heat. Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade. Use language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend. It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end. And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost, 1943

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“The Wicker Man”-inspired PNGs.

(1. Green man from the 1973 movie, 2. Wild carrot, 3. Bird mask, 4. Bass saxtuba from 1855, 5. Wicker man from the 1973 movie, 6. Moon detail from “The Augsburg Book of Miracles”, 7. Bat mask, 8. Apple blossom, 9. Burning hand from the 1973 movie)

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Disco Elysium// The Book of Miracles, Augsburg, 1552// Disco Elysium// Marx, Book of Verse// Paintings in Lascaux Cave// Wikipedia for "Stars"// Brecht// Unknown// Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedekker// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Twin Peaks// DE Art Book// Disco Elysium// Hugo, Les Miserables// Atwood, Cat's Eye// Smyth, The Great Comet of 1843// Hegel// NASA// Howl's Moving Castle// Brecht, Svendborg Poems// Kurvitz, Sacred and Terrible Air// Disco Elysium// Warm as the Stars Dance// Disco Elysium

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Buck is mesmerized as Eddie takes the ice. He’d seen the costume sketch, watched as Eddie went through the initial fitting, hell, he’d even seen him in costume. But not on the ice, under the lights. [...] Eddie breaks the spin as the chaotic music transitions into something more sedate. There’s no trace of the nervousness Eddie had about this section earlier; the man looks positively transcendent as he floats across the ice, sweeping gestures holding the entire audience in his thrall. The music peaks into the final recitation of the melody and Eddie leans back, arms unfurled into a simple spread eagle. As far as Buck’s concerned, Eddie’s the only star in the night sky and he is utterly transfixed. 

art for And Stars May Collide by @beforeastorm, Chapter 6, part of @118bigbang

Eddie skates to Jupiter from Holst's The Planets. His costume was inspired by one of the comets depicted in the Augsburg Book of Miracles.

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The Book of Miracles, Augsburg, c. 1550

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Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) / The Augsburg Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch) (1545-1552 or thereabouts) / John Donne, "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star" (published posthumously in 1633) / Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) (2004) / Morehouse's Comet, Photographed at Yerkes Observatory (1908) / Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (c.1592-3)

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A Bohemian dragon, based on a drawing referred to as Dragons over Bohemia, from the Augsburg Book of Miracles.

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