Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Nurse Cap-Friends to the Rescue
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
No matter how much we convince ourselves that we can do it alone, no matter how embarrassed we might be to ask for help, not one of us is an island unto ourselves. We need each other. After Hutch and Bell helped Caelum and Terra escape the Well of Toads, Bell re-appeared at their side, radiant as an angel, still wearing her Halloween costume’s sequined nurse cap to clean them up and revive them.
Without rightly knowing it, the Sibylant Sisters had called in ancestor Clara Barton. Clara was a school teacher during the American civil war, but she became known as the angel of the battlefield for her brave insistence that she be allowed to bring medical aid to Union soldiers right at the front lines. She was a friend indeed.
As the Sibylant Sisters learned their magic, sometimes they’d get unexpected help from larger-than-life sources, but always the basis of their power began with just being there for each other.
If you’ve drawn this card, it might be time to give or to receive a little help. There are moments when we get to don the sequined cap and show up as the angel for our friends — but don’t forget that in the cycle of giving and receiving, it’s just as important to be the one who asks for help. In doing so, we allow our friends to rise to the fullness of who they can be by showing up for a friend in need.
–Swoon