in tarot, the major arcana are the foundational cards of any deck. across these 22 cards, we follow the fool’s journey from innocence and wonder, to enlightenment and fulfillment. they tell a story of the human experience and all of the messy complexities therein. in telling personal and communal ancestral stories through these archetypes, i create a personal way to reflect, venerate, and divine with the knowledge i’ve captured. to process, to hold, to celebrate.
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chelsea j. ferguson is a conceptual collage artist.archivist.writer working out of portland, or. as an artist she plays with the use of shared cultural languages and symbols as a means of reclaiming narrative power. her visual grammar is informed by an early career in media and advertising, and studies of art history, popular, and visual cultures.
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