Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Smashed Plate-Rupture
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Things break. They fall apart. Fault lines appear. Circumstances change. Ruptures in the fabric of our lives are inevitable and terrifying — often sad, sometimes freeing, but always a fact of life.
Paper Jeannie and the Wee Witch Katarina had a big ol’ disagreement that sent Katarina escaping through that time tested form of self expression known as smashing all the plates at the dinner table.
But the rupture in their tale didn’t begin that day. The smashed plate was merely an emblem of a tightly coiled tension desperately seeking a path of release.
When we trace the fault lines back, they often point to a source of pain long suffering for a remedy, or to circumstances begging to be changed. If we find ourselves acting out like Katarina did, we can be sure the tantrum comes from a part of ourselves that’s too young to know how to express what it needs in words and so is trying to get our attention in louder, more primal ways. Sometimes it feels like life is doing the same.
Inconvenient and messy to be sure, and yet there’s almost always something to be honored here. Some listening to be done. When the center cannot hold, it might mean we’re not on our true center at all.
What has fallen apart is the symptom of a tectonic shift that will not be ignored. When the dust has settled, and the center is regained, we usually find ourselves much closer to who we really are and where we really need to be.
–Swoon