collage & tarot & poetry

i have always wanted to be an artist but i can't draw very well.  so collage has always been my thing.  a long time ago, i created large mural-like collages that collapsed under their own weight after a few years.  i also made collages out of the walls of my rooms where i lived, taping & tacking pictures to the walls.  

you can see the pictures on the wall of my dining room here.  they went across the entire wall & around the corner & covered all the walls of the room.  it was really impressive.  when we moved, it took me a week to take all the pictures down.

poetry is a kind of collage.  you cut & paste words & phrases together.  i always thought that collages of words & collages of pictures were very much alike.  whenever i got stuck with one form, i switched to the other one. 

i have boxes & bags filled with pictures & i have folders & notebooks filled with poems & partial-poems.  between the two of them, i plan to write as many poems as i can & create as many collages as possible.

as for the tarot, i have been reading the cards since 1988.  my first deck was a rider-waite deck & i still read with that deck most often.  but i have other decks.  i particularly like collage decks & look for those decks online & in stores.  one of my favorites is kat black's golden tarot.  she puts together pictures from medieval & early renaissance art & the result is magnificent.  

another set i own is the love tarot.  a majors only set, it also features an innovative way of using collage imagery.  

i especially like the high priestess.  but all the cards are fabulous. 

which brings me to the card i created today, for the poem (ii the high priestess).  i used a picture i found on mythindex.com called "diana hunting" by guillaume seignac.  the link is here ... http://mythindex.com/greek-mythology/A/Artemis.html.  the columns were clip art that i had for a long time.  i really don't know where they came from.  i wanted to add a large crescent moon at her feet & i tried several times but didn't like the results so i removed them.  so this is a very simple card.

but i think one of my best so far.  i think if i would change anything, i would make the text bold face so you can see it better.  but other than that, i'm really pleased with it.

so over this weekend, i'm going to start working on the empress card & a few other little collages for a few other poems.  & post it here so the whole world knows about how creative i am.