Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Illuminated Web-Wonder
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Sometimes a beam of sunlight pours in the window with such luminous perfection that even the old cobwebs on the ceiling sparkle like the whiskers on a kitten. Seeing things afresh in this way can fill the surliest of hearts with a tender joy. Perhaps even inspire an old childhood tune. For the Wee Witch Katarina, this sight recalled her to the Itsy Bitsy Spider, a song her grandmother had sung to her, and which, when they were in their baby shoes, she had shared with her own children.
Through that dawn-bright light and the sharing of a long forgotten tune, a little opening appeared. A family that was most times lonely in each other’s company became connected by a golden spider’s silk strand of delight.
This card is wink and a whisper. It says don’t forget to see the perfect tenderness in small, seemingly imperfect places.
It says go ahead and celebrate the miraculous hidden right here in the ordinary. And sing – sing the songs that remind you of the quiet joy waiting always inside you for a spark of wonder to re-ignite it.
–Swoon