This is my intervention for the project Intersection, in the Moonee Valley Arts Week
The Tarot is a book written with images and symbols that articulate between each other, constructing a code. Its birth goes back to ancient Egipt, and it is a way of transmiting secret and sacred symbols to the hermetic initiated. It is a know and effective predictive vehicle, and above all, an iniciator in secrets and misteries, which, we know, are found within ourselves and our environment.
One of the most used deck of Tarot cards is the Tarot of Marseilles, developed in Italy, in the XV century. This consists in a total of 78 cards, of which 22 are Major Arcans, and 56 Minor Arcans, (Arcan means secret).
Each Major Arcan represents an archetypal image, with a great number of symbolisms.
All of them are depicted with a representative image, a roman number and a name, excepting number XIII, which is the Nameless Arcan, or Death; and The Fool, which has no number and is used as 0 or 22.
I have chosen to create the 22 Major Arcans of a site specific Tarot, reinterpreting images of things found on the site. Almost all of the images and their names have correspondence with the traditional Arcans.
Each card will be located where the picture was taken. In some cases, the things will no longer be there, in others, they represent more permanent elements of the place.
What can this cards tell us about the present, past, and future of this place?
The Tarot is a book written with images and symbols that articulate between each other, constructing a code. Its birth goes back to ancient Egipt, and it is a way of transmiting secret and sacred symbols to the hermetic initiated. It is a know and effective predictive vehicle, and above all, an iniciator in secrets and misteries, which, we know, are found within ourselves and our environment.
One of the most used deck of Tarot cards is the Tarot of Marseilles, developed in Italy, in the XV century. This consists in a total of 78 cards, of which 22 are Major Arcans, and 56 Minor Arcans, (Arcan means secret).
Each Major Arcan represents an archetypal image, with a great number of symbolisms.
All of them are depicted with a representative image, a roman number and a name, excepting number XIII, which is the Nameless Arcan, or Death; and The Fool, which has no number and is used as 0 or 22.
I have chosen to create the 22 Major Arcans of a site specific Tarot, reinterpreting images of things found on the site. Almost all of the images and their names have correspondence with the traditional Arcans.
Each card will be located where the picture was taken. In some cases, the things will no longer be there, in others, they represent more permanent elements of the place.
What can this cards tell us about the present, past, and future of this place?
1 comments:
i like the ideas coz i like tarot too
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