Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Franklin-Rage
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Franklin is buried away under the surface of Jeannie’s mind, because
Franklin contains something that Paper Jeannie needs, but which she can’t accept.
Franklin is enraged.
Franklin remembers exactly what Jeannie went through, and his righteous anger could melt a volcano to the ground. Franklin knows what’s right and what isn’t. He makes no excuses for anyone. He is angry and he wants that anger to be seen and heard. And felt.
But. Franklin has been tasked with the impossible burden of carrying all of Jeanie’s rage all alone, way down in the shadows of her psyche. No one ever sat with him and listened. No one ever held him in his
volcanic pain. So Franklin has only the most feral concept of how to express such a burden. He lashes out, blames the wrong people, and overflows with pent-up cruelty the second he sees the light of day.
If we get down to the heart of it, there’s nothing really wrong with Franklin. All of Jeannie’s emotions, indeed all of her selves deserve a seat at the table. If you’ve drawn this card, it’s possible that there is some anger somewhere inside that needs you. It may be asking to be fully felt, listened to, and even respected, so that rather than becoming split off and dangerous, it can join you, as an honored guest. A right-sized and mighty part of your whole and healthy self.
–Swoon