Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Gardenia Flower-Earth Magic
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
The gardenia is small but mighty. Its petals are delicate, but its blossoms give off a powerful perfume that radiates through even the muggiest of air, lending it an aura of enchantment. The old timers have been known to say that if you talk to the plants right, they’ll talk right back. That each plant has a spirit all it’s own, and if you allow it to, it’ll share some of its wisdom.
Caelum’s gardenia allowed her to tune out the world around her by disappearing into the beauty and perfection of that little flower’s scent. In the reprieve from the suffocating rankness of the Grey House, she became able to imagine new kinds of possibilities for what could be.
Here’s about how Caelum did it, in case you might like to try it yourself. Get ahold of your favorite herb or flower or oil, and take a moment to deeply inhale that beloved fragrance. Let it fill up your senses so entirely that the scent alone be comes an all-encompassing place. One where everything else in the world drops away and you get lost in the tale the flower tells. Where you can waltz right in to the space of joy it creates, and dress yourself up in its spell of sweet protection.
Your world may be hectic, or foul, or even entirely intolerable at times, but within the respite created by tuning into the earth and her aromas, there exists a kind of freedom. A becoming one with the place that made you, which refreshes all inspiration.
–Swoon