Apathetic Attempts at Empressing
Below are some extracts from my tarot deck ‘Apathetic Attempts at Empressing’, a 78-card deck divided into 22 picture cards (as the major arcana) and 56 written cards.
Apathetic Attempts at Empressing is a tarot deck, it is a
novel, and a documentation. This medicine is used to treat
the following conditions:
Writer’s block
Major depressive episodes
Intermittent implosive disorder
Painter’s paralysis
Tendency towards fungal growths
Stage fright
Academic procrastination
Extreme dental avoidance
Slight agoraphobia
Plagues of personal demons
Mental ‘goat songs’ and self-obsessive ‘god
hours’
This work is performative, to be read as a tarot reading from a dealer to the reader or with the reader taking both roles themselves.
Her form is her occupation, languishing in ambiguous assortment, working in unforetold fragments – the order of her abstracted and meaningless. And yet, she possesses a dual nature. It is IN the laying of the cards, the complex webs and new connections, where meaning is found through handling, through
attention. The Tarot deck has come to represent the rebirth of my practice in action –
work like a Fool,
think like an Empress.
