Tarot -

Tarot

This work reinterprets the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille, transmuting artistic residue into perceptual raw material.

Each card was constructed autonomously, assembling fragments of surplus acrylic paint from previous works without a preliminary underdrawing. Once the individual identity of each card was consolidated, the ensemble was mounted upon a blue paper-cardboard substrate that unifies the space, functioning as the visual field where the archetypes engage in dynamic interaction.

The remnants of past creations, already cured and solidified, are granted a second ontological life. Figures such as The Hanged Man or Death emerge from these recycled fragments, demonstrating that visual identity is fundamentally malleable and that no meaning is ever definitive.

The absence of a preliminary sketch compels a perceptual decision in real-time. The hand selects the fragments while the mind negotiates between the tradition of the symbol and the materiality of the residue. This process exposes that creation, much like divination, does not reside in deciphering a pre-written destiny, but in constructing meaning from dispersed fragments.

The cards do not predict the future; they fabricate it from the remnants of the past. Each arcana operates as a mosaic of pictorial memories that reorganize themselves under the pressure of an inquiry. The viewer does not seek answers in an external oracle, but rather activates the mechanism by which perception transforms chaos into a coherent narrative. The Tarot does not reveal what is to come; it exposes the invisible scaffolding with which the mind constructs reality from what other eyes have already seen and discarded.