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little painting corner. It's not very big but I am totally
comfortable there and have everything I need including
wonderful North light through the window and a nice view of
the mountains when it is clear out.
Behind me you can see the 2 of Disks
that I had just finished and barely peeking out behind that is
my "Emperor". No, not the one I painted, just a friend. As
far as I can tell he is a reproduction of a Japanese woodcut
depicting a man from Kabuki theater. I found him a while back
in a thrift store. He happens to be exactly the same size as
the paintings I am doing and he has a great Emperor vibe to
him so I picked him up and on my easel he lives.
The Emperor was the first card I
completed and for a long time was the standard against which I
judged my other cards. I have felt in many ways he is a
patron of this deck, compelling me forward, being the "El" to
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Oh the prerequisite stuff! I am 36, a Taurus
and live in the Los Angeles area with my daughter Sophie, 7, son
Rex, 2, and my husband Michael- the lights of my life. I have been
drawing and painting all my life and am largely self taught (if you
do anything obsessively long enough, you'll eventually get decent at
it, right?)
I got my first tarot deck when I was a
teenager and it has been an off and on interest ever since. I am
also very interested in comparative religion, mysticism, philosophy,
theology, anthropology and modern and ancient arts. I have been
elated to discover that in designing my own tarot deck I can use all
of these things together!
It's been seven years now since I began this
project. I am not sure when it happened, but I recently realized
that it is now my main body of work. It has pretty much taken me
over and I work on it exclusively now! This has definitely been one
of those situations where it was all about the journey. The tarot
is often experiential.
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