I discovered the divinatory art of Tarot when I was 16. I had grown up Christian, but hadn’t really felt a connection to it, so this discovery stuck with me deeply, and inspired my spiritual beliefs. As a result, it’s been a part of a lot of my art since, and I wanted to do a project surrounding it in “Upright and Reversed: Re-imagining the Arcana”.
I constructed this work using four models, photographs in a studio, and digital editing. They posed as if they were the figure in the card they pulled, and then I digitally edited them into the card. I illustrated the props, and then edited the figure out of the original Rider Waite card to not cover up the model. The specific cards displayed in this are The Star, The Hermit, Strength, Temperance, the Ten of Wands, the Five of Cups, the Four of Pentacles, and finally the Nine of Swords.
