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Animal Spirits Knowledge Cards
48 hand-painted animal cards celebrating artist Susan Seddon Boulet's legacy.
by Susan Seddon Boulet · Pomegranate · 2001
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The Canon's read
Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.
The archive review is half obituary: Susan Seddon Boulet, born in Brazil to English parents in 1947, passed away in Oakland, and she will be missed greatly. The Animal Spirits knowledge cards, forty-eight of her paintings through Pomegranate, are the animal half of her legacy this catalog's Goddess Knowledge Cards complete: her signature dissolve of woman, creature and spirit into one luminous outline, here with the animal foremost.
Boulet's shamanic animal imagery predates and outclasses the genre it helped inspire; her owls and bears are not totems-as-keywords but presences, painted with the interiority portraiture reserves for people. The knowledge-card format, art print plus lore, suits work that was always gallery-grade. It suits Boulet's collectors completing the pair, visionary-art admirers, animal-spirit readers who want the genre's high-water mark, and anyone who understands why the reviewer wrote a eulogy where a review was due. The genre's living shelf continues nearby; this is its memorial wing, still radiant.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
This is another wonderful deck by well known artist and author Susan Seddon Boulet - she will be missed greatly - born in Brazil to English parents in 1947 and migrated to America, she passed away in her Oakland, California...
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