The Inner Visions
Visionary 48-card tarot from hallucinatory stick figures to abstract acrylic paintings.
by Jean Thornton · 2004
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The record
The are 48 evocative cards in the Inner Visions deck, untitled and un-numbered cards painted in strong, even chaotic-looking, acrylics, sometimes with a base of watercolour. The paintings are an expansion of Jeans original stick figures drawn on the bus during a visionary, hallucinatory experience, come to fruition in an art class years later. Corresponding with the elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water through the colours used, the Inner Visions cards also correspond with the twelve house positions on the astrological wheel (not in a zodiacal or planetary sense, the book explains, but in the influence of house positions). The cards have titles like The Fire Box, Its All There In Potential, Moving House, Winning by Skilful Means, Twin Souls, A River of Tears, Acceptance, The Green Door, A Frozen Situation, The Assessors, The Fairy Ring, and Sleeping Treasures, to name a few. The art varies from the abstract and surreal to the head-achingly busy and clashing, to pretty and scenic. There are flowers and snails, giant flies, monsters and multi-coloured beings, combined in scenes that are dreamlike in their juxtaposition. There are small details in the cards with significant meaning
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