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Tarot deck update ❤️

Updated: Jun 6



I've been making good progress on the tarot deck lately. Many Major Arcana are coming together, and the many minor arcana continue to get checked off, too. I feel more in tune with the traditional practice of image making/conceptualization than I ever have before. Something about the task of being presented with a list of themes, feelings, and images, and being asked to synthesize and re-interpret it in my own words feels very honest and ancient. It reminds me of what the old masters were doing in their history/allegory paintings. I like this practice. It's difficult but very rewarding and satisfying. I feel like many of the major arcana I've finished so far could easily be made into larger paintings of real artistic merit. They feel honest, important and weighty in a really good way. I might also start posting some of my thoughts on the cards and what they mean and why I made certain decisions for them here on this blog- so keep an eye out for that!


I've been thinking about posting more detailed information about my songs here, too. Since I started working with my producer on The Queen of Time, I've been making detailed write-ups about what my songs mean to me, and why I think they works. I'd love to be able to share this with my audience too! I have a lot to say, and maybe this blog is the right place to say it. As Invertebrate Waltz gets completed, I'm planning on making a detailed post about each song, and what it means/meant to me while writing it. I hope to accompany these posts with the unmastered "final mix" on my Patreon, so anyone who reads about it here can go listen to it early over there!


I'm excited to start using this blog as a place to share some of the more detailed intention and struggle behind the things I make. I think that publishing information like this enriches the work, and helps clarify what it was meant to say. On the one hand I want the work to speak for itself, and for it revel in the flexibility of interoperation that makes art so special... But on the other hand, if I never speak about these things- that information dies with me. I think knowing what the artist was thinking about is an important part of the constellation of information that gives a piece of art a shared cultural sense of meaning/ value, and I want to give my work more of a chance to have that.

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