Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 4: Sabotage and Subversion

Continuing from structure and randomness… E.E: The first metaphor in tarot happens when we shuffle the tarot. There is a carnivalesque stance in this debasement of hierarchies. I associate this with sabotaging reality. Shuffling the deck sabotages the order of the cards just as we, by shuffling the cards, hope to alter our understanding of…

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Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 3: Structure and Randomness

E.E: recently I saw my heart in an ECG. It seemed like lightning falling on the same tree, over and over. The way I see it, systole and diastole, understood as expansion and contraction, are the two grammar rules of the symbolic world.  There is a tendency among tarot readers to understand the tarot in…

Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 2: Symmetry, Rhythm, and Abstraction

Continuing our conversation from Part 1, Enrique probes into why I chose abstraction in an environment that seems to favour scenic depictions for tarot. E.E: Tarot-aesthetics tend to swing between the vintage and the kitsch. On the one hand there is the allure of the old, expressed through classic decks and occultist practices. On the…