A Few More

I really enjoyed making collages from my photos of friends and family last night; so much so that I got up early and made some more. They remind me of The Mountain Dream Tarot a little. Or the more modern Fauwkner. But instead of being strangers, they are my circle of friends, woven together within the loose pages of this project, fused with my imagination and how I see the cards. There was something so refreshing about designing and making these. The Green Tarot takes a long time. Each card involves hours and hours of work. Recently, it was so satisfying to just make two Instant Oracles and the Dark Beach Oracle. More importantly, it was good to be able to use something I had made and see them used elsewhere.

In today's cards, my friend Kate and her daughter, Isis, sit at the edge of the sea, planning an adventure in the 2 of Wands. My father sleeps his way through the 4 of Swords. And my boyfriend's little niece, Sophie, runs from the lightning-struck Tower. Behind her, you can see the twin towers of Reculver, that my boyfriend and I visited and photographed last year. We had seen the ruin from miles away and wondered what it was, so followed the roads until we found it. It was almost as if it was calling us to it.

I purposely chose a friend I like for the Queen of Wands; our friend from Birmingham, Sarah, who enjoys to let her hair down and is warm. My parents walk forward in the 8 of Cups, and we see the apathy and boredom of a child, as my friend's son Max slumps to the bottom of the 4 of Cups.

Image from The Photographic Tarot by Prince Le Normand