At The Beginning and the End

…is the Fool…30” x 20” oil on wood in upcycled frame - available

I have decided, dear Reader, though I cant recall why, to paint the 78 cards of the Tarot. I am a fool on this journey. I know nothing to begin which is the best place to begin in this particular journey. I will seem a fool to all who know anything about tarot and they are right to think me so!. In fact everything that I think I know I will cast aside so that all new knowledge comes into an empty vessel all the more ready to be filled. I am the devine fool but i am the banal fool....The fool is 'number' zero. They are nothing and they are everything. How do you go from 0 to one? How do you make that jump, to start that journey? there is an infinite distance from 0 to one, to the starting line, but the fool doesn't know they have to get past infinity and so they just step out, off the cliff and somehow onto the path . Is that the original spark of God, the act of creating something from nothing? The first touch of color in a blank canvas? It is true creation! the creation of something from nothing that starts this art journey. So start with 0, be the fool. In this journey into magical archeism, diging into the past of these cards. Why do humans need divination? Why do we resonate with the images and archetypes that we choose? Why do we depict these archetypes in images then ask them to guide us in our lives?