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Bonefire

Tarot drawing from tattoo flash symbolism for personal and universal layers.

by Gabi Angus West · 2016

tattoo-flashsymbolicpersonal-spiritual

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The Canon's read

Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.

Gabi Angus West's Bonefire works in tattoo flash, and the archive review names why the idiom fits: tattoo imagery is already symbolism people choose to wear, meaning committed to skin, so a tarot in flash style offers the seeker layered significance with the needle's directness. Bold line, saturated color, banner and rose and dagger, the RWS structure carried in a visual language built for permanence. Flash is folk art with rules, and West's fluency in them keeps the deck honest: these cards read like a good flash sheet, immediate at arm's length, denser on study. The catalog consolidated its records here, primary over the variant. It suits tattooed readers and their artists, folk-art collectors, RWS readers who want their symbolism with ink-shop candor, and anyone who believes meaning should cost something to wear. Readers wanting watercolor delicacy should browse a different parlor; this deck buzzes.

From the archive

An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.

While tattoos may be appreciated for their artwork alone, many feature images that are deeply symbolic for their wearer. This is why tattoos and tattoo flash has such great potential for tarot cards it offers the Seeker layers of...

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