Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Elly’s Notebook-Creativity
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
This card is all about the relationship between you and your creativity. And don’t say you don’t got none, that’s just plain silly, you created the life you’re living after all, and that ain’t nothin.
Elly loves to draw in her notebook. It all goes in there, finely rendered observations, spectacular brainstorms, half-baked ideas. It’s is a safe place to return to when her mind is chaotic. A way to tame those energies through the meditative gesture of putting brush to paper. It’s like a trusted friend.
This card asks you to honor a relationship in your life which is not between yourself and another person, but between you and a process, or a source of inspiration.
Elly found the more she trusts and listens to her creative source, the more clearly it speaks to her. She gives it time and attention, and it surprises her with a constant flow of creative vision. There’s a reciprocity, a give and take exploration just as mutual as any relationship with another human – and about twice as steady. Elly’s connection with her creativity is the most unshakable thing in her life. In good times and bad, in calm and in quaky, it’s always there. And so is yours.
Elly’s Notebook is here to tell you that your creativity wants a tiny little big thing from you. It wants your curiosity and your care. And, listen up, cause this part’s important: your creativity asks that you graciously, uncritically, and wholeheartedly accept its treasures.
–Swoon