Trump L'Oeil: Tarot of Portmeirion
Photographic tarot using imagery from Portmeirion village in Wales.
creator unknown · 1925
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"Trump LOeil Tarot of Portmeirion" is a fantastic photographic deck based on imagery found in the coastal village of Portmeirion, in Wales. Not since Ciro Marchettis "Tarot of Dreams" have I seen such an imaginative project, and so well presented. From the companion book: Imagine a well-shuffled Tarot deck formulating the blueprint for an eccentric village, every picture unfolding into picturesque architecture, every background transforming into real ground, every portent a literal signpost. The idiosyncratic coastal village of Portmeirion, Wales is exactly such a place a Tarot deck made manifest in mortar and gold leaf. Around one corner, a statue of a cherubic Fool stands blithely on the edge of a rocky precipice. Down another path, the World sits atop the shoulders of a Hercules statue, while the God-Empress Frigga looks on. Elsewhere, St. Peter pontificates from a balcony like a true Hierophant, in the shadow of a soaring Italianate Tower. Taken together, the assorted facets of Portmeirion are eerily like an elaborate spread of divinatory cards an esoteric pop-up book of sorts in which all 22 major archetypes interrelate in three dimesions. How did this lovely village,
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