This Tarot deck began as a reimagining of a traditional symbolic system, but as I worked through its seventy-eight cards, a personal visual language began to emerge alongside the inherited one. Certain images and choices recur across the deck—bare feet, circles, celestial space, intense color and light—linking people and cards that might otherwise seem radically different from one another.
The figures themselves are deliberately diverse in age, race, gender, body, dress and circumstance. Many are barefoot. What began partly as a practical choice gradually acquired meaning for me: without the social information carried by shoes, bare feet became a small emblem of common humanity. However differently these figures present themselves to the world, they ultimately stand on the same ground.
The cosmos extends that idea outward. Stars, planets and immense fields of color place individual figures within a space that belongs to no single culture or identity. Human beings may appear very small within it, but they are not insignificant. Again and again, the figures remain luminous against that immensity.
Circles recur throughout the deck as forms of wholeness, continuity, inclusion and the eternal. Light and color operate differently: they belong to the particular. They give each card—and often each figure—its own vitality, suggesting the irreducible spark of an individual life.
These meanings are not intended as a code with a single correct solution. They coexist with Tarot's traditional archetypes and symbols, changing through context and repetition. I want a viewer to be able to recognize something, wonder about something else, and return to an image without exhausting it. The deck is structured by an inherited system, but the world within it is my own.
