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Conestoga cold storage

from Pond Life by Cryptozoologists

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  • Pond Life Tarot deck and booklet made by me (Zach) in 2019 and 2020, originally collaged and homemade on single tone Home Hardware paint sample cards.

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    FROM THE INTRODUCTION BLURB:

    It is in the spirit of the “amateur” that this whole project was approached - not with expertise, devotion, or even very much familiarity with tarot's tradition and images, but instead with a persistence of learning and creative energy, however naive or distorted.

    The only truly necessary element to this kind of tarot reading is intention: you need to bring the energy and focus to make the connections between yourself and the language of the cards, and if it's useful then it's useful.

    Collage inherently is a de-sanctifying medium – it destroys the wholeness and context of its source images, fusing new meanings together with a kind of irreverent, fuck-the-sacred vibe. Meanwhile, Tarot decks (especially more traditional ones like the Ryder-Waite decks) rely so much on the power of the unbroken, cohesive language of their images – the rigid archetypes, the symbology, the official numbering and order of the cards, etc.

    So collage is kind of the perfect anti-medium to tarot. It allows for easy picking apart, experimenting with, and making fun of all of the mystical absoluteness within traditional tarot. That said, tarot has always been playful and inconsistent with card titles through its history, adapting to become what it needs to be depending on who is using it. Many card titles have been changed here to mess with unnecessarily rigid hierarchical and gender structures, resulting in maybe a confusing mess of card names. This deck is very imperfect but I’m happy with it.

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Mapping the frozen floor of Conestoga Cold Storage. Lost in the desert of the greater Toronto transit system. Locked in a two-hundred year rut, how's your frustrated Anglican crabwalk? How's your wasteland of Wasteland-like poetry, undead? Cruelty nudges closer, with fewer options at fate's auction. Communing with emptiness in a parking lot, communing with emptiness in a parking lot.

Call a meeting: pepper some rhyme to a world of unreason. Maybe you can't break the curse of signification, but you can move in slow motion. So even if it takes a week just to reach for the telephone, call yourself back from the dead. Call yourself back from the dead.

We got robbed on the road. In turn we clubbed a kid for his clothes. In turn he'll find someone weaker to hose. You see: that's how it goes, you lean into how the roundabout flows and you keep your eyes closed to what you inherit on the road, and lick your stamps and seal and send off your letters of hope to the future and you hope that they get where they need to go, but you cannot follow for lo: you have grown so very old.

But call a meeting: pepper some rhyme to a world of unreason. Maybe you can't break the curse of signification, but you can move in slow motion. So if it takes a week just to reach for the telephone, call yourself back from the dead. Call yourself back from the dead.

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from Pond Life, released September 4, 2020

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