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Here are the roughed out color palettes for this month's work.Both are familiar and contain a decent amount of reference back to their prior incarnations. Whenever that happens I stress a bit and push to try to find a unique offramp for them. As these pieces come together, they are both likely to diverge into their own directions to better suit their role in the Tarot.

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Vorian

Its kinda like the hanged man is kinda floating underwater its dope

Phoenix Hilson

The Hanged Man is about chosen sacrifice - doing something fo others even if it costs you dearly. When the noose is around his neck, it takes the meaning away from self-sacrifice into a totally different meaning that he's done something wrong. For me, it makes reading the card far more difficult. It's beautiful, as is all your work, just a bit of a negative twist. 50 years of working with the cards makes my connection with them a bit more intense than most, I guess.

Ziel St. Fallen

For me, it immediately makes me think of Sydney Carton going to the guillotine so his unrequited love's boyfriend survives in Tale of Two Cities. Putting yourself in another's place to take their punishment. Different angles to the same art, I suppose

Nikki Martin

That's an interesting response! It made me look harder at the image because in principle I agree. On closer inspection, to me it appears as a broken Angelarium sigil that is around his neck, rather than a noose. It's still floating as is the ambiguously attached(?) fish hook, but that line is also floating up and off the gallows. Thinking of it as a sigil, it opens up new lines of inquiry into what sort of spiritual weights we carry, like Odin or Prometheus, and why we carry them. What paths bring us to the sacrament? To the sacrifice?

Phoenix Hilson

It's one of the reasons I adore tarot - there are as many "takes" on it as there are people reading the cards. I can totally see your point.Thank you for the comment. I can't wait to see these cards in person so I can expand my experience with them.