Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Garden Hose-Trickster
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Nothing sends a lightning bolt through the world like a visit from the trickster. Now a good prank is never truly mean-spirited. A good prank is funny, witty, unexpected, and you’ll know a really good prank by it’s uncanny ability to critique the existing order and turn the everyday world on its head, letting in all manner of whimsy, mischief, and disorientation.
Grandma Eva was a kind soul with a trickster’s capacity for top notch mischief. It was through mischief that she taught Katarina and Jeannie to keep hold of their joy in spite of all else that might come.
One of Katarina’s most precious memories with her grandma was the day a cookie batter fight broke out in the kitchen. Katarina thought she was smart, sneaking out the bathroom window to reach the garden hose and turn it on grandma, but the joke was on her, ‘cause as she scootched backward out that window she felt a cold blast of water, and there was Eva, hose in hand, cackling in delight — the undisputed master of mischief.
Eva taught her granddaughters that there’s a kinda joy that don’t care one lick about propriety. It’s outta-this-world inventive and squirrely, and it laughs at itself just as soon as laughing at others. It’s a joy that holds a seed of resistance in its heart, and when the pressures of the world are too much, sometimes it’s this very mischief which safeguards the last ember that can bring the flame of spirit back to life.
–Swoon