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Power creep

from Pond Life by Cryptozoologists

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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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So I have a permanent address. Came for what the red sea parted open, stayed because it folded after passing. Been making a milling off of delivering myself naked to these old dominion pedestals as if displaying powerlessness was the same as smashing shit.

But what the fuck am I creeping for this time of night, opening and closing strangers' doors? Am I rowing my life away on this dinghy of success, moored to the drowned hulks of my excess? Just as well to sell as to be silent beholden, but in this economy speech shall be the stick in the spoke of a rigged wheel of fortune.

It's stretching to see myself as constellation, but there I am so often: a series of escalating compromises, a pattern of out-of-grasp fragmentations. In this way I got stuck in a door frame I don't quite fit through, fucked the view from either room, so tried homemaking with thresholds but just became another gallery gatekeeper.

So is this how our proud boy failed up, clutching at every in-sight summit? Is every crack in the cement a republic waiting to be declared by an opportune man? I confess and confess, but this guilt is what carries my breathe.

What the fuck am I creeping for this time of night, opening and closing strangers' doors? Am I rowing my life away on this dinghy of success, moored to the drowned hulks of my excess? Just as well to sell as to be silent beholden, but in this economy speech shall be the stick in the spoke of a rigged wheel of fortune.

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from Pond Life, released September 4, 2020

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