Card Studies

Close readings of single cards and small groups.

Early tarot cards on a research table, magnifying glass, sketchbook, pencils, notes, museum atmosphere, no mystical cliches.
Early tarot cards on a research table, magnifying glass, sketchbook, pencils, notes, museum atmosphere, no mystical cliches.

Close readings of single cards and small groups.

The card studies are short visual essays. Each one begins with what is plainly present.

The aim is not to solve the deck but to keep it available to thought.

Cards are compared by gesture, architecture, weather, costume and the quiet theatricality of the printed scene.

The first studies gather around thresholds, tables, staffs, cups and acts of looking.