Witching Hour: The Beginnings of My Tarot Journey
There’s always that resurgence of energy each year August comes to an end, as though every cell in my body just knows that Summer’s (finally) coming to an end soon. Though Autumn in Hong Kong is never the cozy breezy weather you would imagine, it is also the biggest excuse for me to embrace all of my witchy wackiness in all its glory.
So while I’ve talked about my tarot journey on Kickstarter and maybe other places, but I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here (?).
The Sun, The Moon, and The Star
When the four smaller paintings got sold during the opening of the exhibition, “Chinese Surrealism” at Alisan Fine Arts, Daphne asked if I would be interested in make another group of small works to be shown on July 3, in time with Southside Saturday in which I was to do a tarot reading event.
Of course I said yes (Mostly out of the need/want to sell more paintings).
The Four Seasons
Wrote little things about the first four paintings I made for my gallery debut.
XXI The World
Painted as a pairing with (and actually before) ‘0 The Fool’, ‘XXI The World.’ Like its partner, ‘XXI The World’ is a re-interpretation of the last card in a Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck. The first iteration I made of the card was mid-2019, in the middle of a social movement in Hong Kong that I’m sure has changed much of our perspectives on what happiness is. Coupled with the waves of the global pandemic, I used this exhibition opportunity at Alisan Fine Arts to create a The World that reflects what a perfect world looks to me now.
0 The Fool
‘0 The Fool’ is a re-interpretation of the first card in a Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck. I had painted another iteration of the card in April 2019, for my now published deck, ‘L'Œil de L'Âme Tarot.’ But as we all know, April 2019 was another time and place. So many things had changed in the past two years, that when Daphne King of Alisan Fine Arts asked me to make new works for the exhibition, I felt that I wanted to use the opportunity to create a The Fool that was more aligned with what I thought the card meant to me now.