Matthew wanted his religious fiction book cover design to have a realistic or impressionistic art style, such as paintings, renderings, photo compositions, etc. He also had a pretty specific scene in mind. He wanted to have the silhouette of an elderly man sitting on a park bench. However, after realising his scene wasn't working as expected, he fully embraced a more artistic and creative interpretation. One of the things I absolutely love about his book is the striking, dramatic discrepancy between the two realities Norman is living in. There's everybody's reality where life goes on normally, and then there's his reality where everything comes to an end. Book readers are usually very drawn to duality because it's intriguing. So what better way to create a more dramatic effect than to somehow depict both realities. That's how I came up with the idea of using the back cover to depict Norman's apocalyptic vision, and the front cover to show the true reality.