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…