Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Boom Box-Joy
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Where are you most free?
For Caelum it was in the beauty of nature and daydreams, for Hutch it was riding on the back of Chestnut, and for Bell it was in the music that poured out of her boombox.
Joy is like a river running through life. Each of us dips our feet in that river in different ways but when we’re in it, there’s no mistaking it. Our joy is contagious. It frees us, and through our freedom we make space for others around us to find their own way to the river.
Joy is a permission slip to just be ourselves. And there’s no faking it. Joy is an event. A force that rushes through us and releases us from the cage of expectations, the traps of overthinking, and the misery of alienation. Even if just for a moment.
So this card has a message for you and it is this: Don’t ever let anyone make you believe that your joy is frivolous. Your joy feeds the river of happiness that sustains this world. You’re the only one who knows your own way to that river. Your path to happiness is what makes you you. So go. Go now. Go often. And celebrate when you get there, because your joy feeds us too.