Animal Spirits Knowledge Cards

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.