Tower of Babylon
Tower of Babylon
$600.00
White stoneware, underglazes, glaze
11 × 10 × 8 inches
This work is based on a science fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang "Tower of Babylon". The story revisits the Tower of Babel myth as a construction megaproject and takes place in ancient Babylon, but set in a world where ancient Hebrew cosmology is accurate: the Earth is flat and covered by a celestial vault, harboring the Sun and the Moon in the expanse within. Humanity has been working for centuries on a huge tower to reach the vault and enter Yahweh's domain."