Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Halloween Candy-Celebration
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Halloween is one of the best nights of the year. A time that draws out the imagination as it stokes the fires of celebration.
For the Sibylant Sisters, Halloween contained a hidden potency. They learned that their favorite sugar-fueled holiday was based in ancient traditions like Samhain, with its thinning of the veil between the worlds, or Harvest Season, a time to communicate with the ancestors and
learn from the dead. Even their Halloween costumes became doorways to deeper truths — a way to call Halloween Candy in the powers of the Oracle at Delphi, to channel the ferocity of a demon slayer on horseback, or access a nurse’s ability to bring care when it’s most needed.
Celebrations are for bringing people together, letting loose, and being free. Try though the Puritans might to stomp that out, celebration is just as necessary to our sustenance as rest, work, and family.
Traditional celebrations make sure we have a little fun and play built in our ghoulishly busy lives. It’s no surprise then that ancient wisdom arrives hiding at the bottom of a jack o’ lantern candy bucket. If you’ve drawn this card, you might be seeking the sustenance of deep ritual and tradition, or you might just need to gobble down your favorite celebratory libations and send yourself sparkling into the night.
–Swoon