Tarot of the Bellydancers
Photographs of belly dancers merged with tarot settings via computer graphics.
creator unknown · 2006
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The record
The new independently published Tarot deck, the Tarot of the Bellydancers, is unique in theme and in artistic creation. The 78 cards were a three-year project and feature belly dancers photographed against a blue screen, their images merged with their Tarot settings via computer graphics software. The artist, Russell Henderson, has thirty years of experience with the Tarot, while the photographer, Victoria Logan (Inara), is also a bellydancer. Each card has a uniquely positioned belly dancer, a woman posed in gorgeous dancing costume. The models are of varying ages, hair-colours, appearance and dres; the costumes are from across the spectrum and there are velvets, satins, lace, finding, long skirts, bikini tops, modest dresses, scarves, gold coins, gauze veils, beading and sequins. There are plenty of bare bellies, and some dancers show lots of cleavage and leg, while others are covered from wrist to ankle. Neither the costumes nor people seem to have been duplicated much across the whole deck. The studio photographs of the dancers have been carefully cropped and overlaid on some very scenic backgrounds of mountains, lakes and fields: there are ruined castles in the 10 of Wands, an
The cards
