I haven't been writing lately, haven't visited these pages for what seems like a while. Where have I been? Well, for one thing, I've been busy finishing up my art cards. And while completing those, my head is already spinning forward with new possibilities and ideas. I've been reading about Pamela Colman Smith, the artist who designed the Rider-Waite Tarot card deck, the most popular version. Rider was merely the publisher of the cards, so now informed people prefer to call the cards Smith-Waite in honor of the artist who created the 80 card set. While reading about this, and creating ACEOs, I thought it might be interesting to let the Tarot inspire me in future card endeavors.
Not to make a formal set of Tarot cards necessarily, but to investigate some of the ideas and imagery. For instance, one of the suits in Tarot is that of pentacles or COINS. Well, as you can see from my larger collages posted earlier, I am already employing coins in my work. In fact I have been collecting images of world coinage for some time. And I've been obsessed with royal figures like Louis xiv and Napoleon as emperor. So it seems like the Tarot might provide a neat framework for some new cards.
Pictured is one of my favorite Smith-Waite cards, the Queen of Cups, completely dense with visual symbols.
No comments:
Post a Comment