Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Grey Fog-Dissociation
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
The fog enshrouds. It dampens and silences, and hides things from
view. For Caelum the fog of dissociation rolled in like an ambivalent sort
of rescuing angel. It was a state she could shift into when her world got overwhelming. It ushered in an eerie sense of distance that left her floating like a helium balloon far far above her life. In this space nothing could affect her, and for a time that was a blessing.
Eventually though Caelum found that when she was enshrouded by the fog, nothing could affect her, but she couldn’t affect anything either. What had started as an adaptation to protect her became a force that isolated her. It leached the brightness and joy from her world, and paralyzed her when what she needed most was to take
action.
Is there a fog that holds you still and “safe” but stops you from meeting the moment of your life? How about a defense that swoops in to the rescue, but lately that rescue has become a disaster all its own? There comes a moment when we have to thank our brilliant defenses for all they’ve done to protect us from a world that was too much to handle, and then we gotta ask them to turn us loose so we can learn something new.
–Swoon