Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Sibyl-Secret Knowledge
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Sibyl knows things. Tremulous, forgotten things. Ancient secrets whispering like wind through the tops of the trees. She comprehends that which others might not want to see and comes bearing knowledge that no one seems to understand how she got ahold of.
Sibyl is a sorceress, and an archetype, and rumor has it she’s where the Sibylant Sisters got their name. How they came to meet her, now that’s another story. You see, their dear aunt Paper Jeannie had what the old folks called The Splitting. She carried more than one self inside a fragile body, and an unsteady mind, and one of those selves went by the name of the Sibyl.
Spooky as she was fascinating, when Sibyl came calling her urgent message was this: you can accept the gifts handed down through your family without the burden of their curse. Her demand: but first, you gotta get right with the truth you’ve been running from.
Sibyl is the call of ancient wisdom which can only be tapped through the facing of fears and taboos, and the breaking of silences. Hers is a circuitous path which leads you to conclusions that logic alone cannot reach. Her home is the cave that you fear to enter, lest the armor of your ego be shucked and dismantled at the door. And yet, that very dismantling might be the only way to reach the truth you seek.
–Swoon