Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Corroded Battery-Toxic Fuel
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Sometimes we keep going way past when we should rest. We draw on energy sources that spoil our landscape, tax our innate resources, and exhaust us to the bone. This is the corroded battery. The shock to the system. Running on adrenaline and fear. In an emergency we may need this fuel, but a life lived in this mode comes at too high a cost. The Wee Witch Katarina’s life was formed by painful experiences that left her stuck in this mode, running on reserves until she found her
whole world depleted.
Now might be a good moment to ask yourself if there are sources of energy in your life which take more than they give, leaving you twice as exhausted as when you started. If so, is there some nagging sense of deficit that tricks you into thinking something so bad is doing you some kinda good?
This card is calling you to take restorative measures. It’s reminding you to fill your creative well. To rest long enough that you might reset your nervous system, long enough to re-attune to the healthy sources that feed you in a sustainable way. This is an invitation to comb out and untangle some of the tensions that’re draining you down so low you end up reaching for toxic jolts of dirty fuel.
–Swoon