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…
Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 1: Is Geometry the Soul of Things?
This week I’ve had the great pleasure to discuss The Orbifold Tarot with a Tarot Revolutionary: Enrique Enriquez. His questions are insightful and challenging, helping me understand my own work better from an outside mirror. He is doing what I think we should all do as readers: he’s mentoring me through myself — and at…
