Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Katie-Innocence
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Katie’s card is a bridge to the tenderest place. Every grown up on the planet was once a child. An innocent and vulnerable little being that needed love and guidance, protection and safety. If we look around at the adults in our world, there’s days when we feel nothing but frustration, anger and fear at the way we see them behaving. At the choices they make, and how those choices affect everyone else around them.
And yet these folks might also be the very people we love most. Our parents, partners, and friends. We wish we could understand them in a way that helps us put down our weapons and truly see them.
This is where Katie comes in. Katie allowed Caelum to see that even the Wee Witch Katarina was once a bright eyed little kid who never had the safety she needed.
Through Katie’s smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks, Caelum saw Katarina’s mischief and sweetness. By understanding Katie’s suffering, Caelum could see why Katarina sought solace in the places she did.
Understanding ain’t the same as an excuse, and this isn’t about tolerating the intolerable.
But it is about perceiving with an open heart. When we see the eyes of the child they once were shining through the adult that stands before us, we become a little less likely to treat them as an enemy, and a little more willing to see their hidden wholeness.
–Swoon