Ceccoli Tarot Mini

The record

Childhood is the enigmatic country through which we all pass, and once we leave it’s borders we can never return. As adults we often look back to this time of innocence, fear, beauty, and mystery with profound nostalgia and longing. It is this bittersweet sensibility that infuses artist Nicoletta Ceccoli's Tarot. This deck utilises pre-existing artworks by Ceccoli, that have been recast as tarot cards - with some being more than successful than others as far as tarot imagery goes. The artworks chosen especially for the Major Arcana and suit of Swords. are particularly outstanding. Other choices in the Minor Arcana remain fairly obscure until you match the little white book (LWB) description to the picture. It is in relation to the meanings ascribed in the LWB that the potential (and charm) of the cards becomes apparent. Take the 4 of Cups - a snow dome encases a rather indifferent mermaid lounging in a shell - the LWB advises “Discontent, isolation, ennui, petty desires.” Or the Nine of Swords - 2 tiny girls hide behind giant building blocks as a giant stuffed rabbit toy searches for them, the LWB gives us the divinatory meaning “Paralysing fears, panic, primitive instinct”. The LW

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