The starting point

It started as ,a "what if " moment.


I have always been drawn to photographic portraiture, landscapes don't do it for me. For me it is all about people, their faces, their energy, their creative expression. People are fascinating. By the same token photography is mystifying, the capturing of a moment in time, a moment that will never occur again - it is the closest I can get to performing magic. Making time stand still.

For many, many years I have incorporated photography or photographic images in my art. Most recently I have been photographing people who captivated me. Trying to capture their spirit, their place in time. Photography is the ultimate spirit catcher.

The High Priestess Tarot Series began with combining disparate things in my life, a class I was attending on the tarot and my art. My Gemini spirit tries to cope with my diarrhea of the mind, and is always trying to combine seemingly random strands into one thread. Hence the "what if" moment. What if I took used photographs of people I know and made a tarot deck. The making of the deck serves so many purposes, strengthening community, learning more about the tarot, learning more about people, learning more about myself and finally having a deck that has"personal meaning." Probably the most important is that the high priestess in me wants to reclaim the deck from its traditional male dominated representations.