gathering gumption for growth and decay
the landscape of social media and the internet is constantly in flux. trying to stay nimble. you can follow me and subscribe on substack where i’ll be posting more frequently about art makings and process stuff. there’s some good humans over on that platform. my impulse is to keep sharing my spontaneous explorations with new mediums and modes.
“art is all over” is a junk drawer for sketchy automatism
i’ve been slowly making an abstract surreal tarot deck. the process is intuitive. i haphazardly cut scrap watercolour paintings into little bits and puzzle the shapes together on small cards until compositions reveal themselves.
wands are birds. discs are moons. cups are fish. swords are hooks. but even these types of symbols are always up for interpretation.
what you sea is different from what eye sea
the mirror is the moon is the feather is the feeling
…
Great emptiness as
simple as that went
So straight before-
had not been able
then not being idle
went absent away
Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing
Rest was never more than
abstract since it is empty
reality we cannot escape
…
from “Souls of the Labadie Tract” by Susan Howe
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