LOCKDOWN QUEST
Reinterpretations of the traditional tarot deck, digital illustration.2020
Tarot decks are often used in divination, but can also become a simple tool for introspection. The tarot is structured like a choose your own adventure game, based on the mythological archetype of the hero’s journey. The symbolism and narrative structure are ambivalent enough to make a kind of sense to the ‘reader’ no matter what arrangement they are in. In this way, the tarot deck becomes like a kind of alphabet, with endless possibility for making meaning. Identity itself is a kind of self-mythology, given structure by the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what made us. During the 2020 covid lockdowns, the creation of this tarot deck became a place where a personal-mythology could be played with in a period of isolation, unknowable futures, and shifting normalities.
