Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Cigarette Ash-Pessimism
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Maybe there’s a part of each of our hearts that believes all good things will turn to ash. And not in an enlightened, this-too-shall-pass kinda way, but in a fine silt of charred earth dulling everything the eye can see kinda way. In a…this is gonna facilitate a nasty death but let’s do it anyway because whatthefuckever and such is life… kinda way.
Katarina knew all about the crumbling world at the end of a cigarette And every batch of Toad Brew needs at least a little bit of burnt-up dreams. And sure, discernment helps us have a realistic view of the world. It protects us from danger and folly. But what happens when discernment teams up with a deep down- ward tug and whispers death-quiet in our ears that nothing good can come at all?
Well therein too lies a kind of folly. One that strangles possibility and stops us from living our dreams. So if there’s one question this card asks you, it’s this: Is there a part of your heart that needs to set down the comfortable cynicism of the crushed-out cigarette, and pick up the juicier, perhaps a bit scarier, but much much sweeter apples of hope?
–Swoon