Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Rope Harness-Courage
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
There’s no two ways about it — the rope harness calls on great courage.
Caelum was lost in the well, and only a death-defying rescue would save her. Despite all logic and protestation, Terra fashioned a climbing harness out of an old rope from the Klank shed and went in after her baby sister. She had no way of knowing that she’d make it out alive, and she was sure enough terrified, but she did it anyway.
It doesn’t always have to be a life-or-limb mission to require great courage. Sometimes just speaking the truth and breaking a taboo of silence can feel like we’re walking ourselves to the gallows. If you’ve ever left the safety of a situation that wasn’t letting you grow, you know courage.
Courage is the lion in the heart that doesn’t let the rest of you back down, even when mercy knows the rest of you wants to. Courage burns hot enough to power you forward. There’s a compassion and a grace to its fire, because it burns from the center of you, so it’s the heart that steers it. While it might lead you in to some situations that terrify the bejeezus outta you, courage itself is a force you can trust.
–Swoon