Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Glasses-Clear Vision
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Rasp’s glasses are a tool of clarity. Fearless lucidity when making sense of the world. When you draw this card, you’re being asked to look again, great big wide, because liberation begins with looking and listening.
It takes a certain fearlessness to witness injustice or oppression when the status quo asks only that we not see. Sometimes the first step in helping another become free is simply saying I see you. Sometimes the first step in helping an unjust system to crumble is the same. See what you see, know what you know.
The silence that gripped the Grey House began to lose its power in the presence of a compassionate truthful gaze. Rasp’s ability to lucidly parse history helped Caelum and Terra sense that there might be another path through. Another truth beyond the one they knew. Up until then they’d only understood what the Wee Witch Katarina let them understand, and they’d been stuck.
Seeing was the first step. Their path remained complex, but sure enough they were on it. So what could you use a little help seeing clearly? You don’t have to do it alone — you can call on guidance, wisdom, and teachings, but when you find that fresh perspective you’ll know it. It’ll be dazzling and clear as daylight. Like a thing you’ve always known and yet also like seeing it for the first time.
–Swoon