After making these plates I have thought about using them as tarot cards in my next performance. Tarot cards refer to my practice in several ways that attract me to them:
1. Medieval imagery and woodcuts : the earliest known tarot cards are from the 15th century, named the Visconti-Sforza 'tarocchi' decks, reproduced in 1975 as the Pierpont Morgan-Bergano Tarocchi deck. Early tarot packs are often medieval woodcuts.
2. The presence of godesses and female empowered figures: like the Empress, the High Priestess/Popess and Strenght/Fortitude.
3. The rich symbolism: the macrocosm view, the spiritual realm, the presence of key Christian symbols (like the chalice), the concentration of symbolic meanings that would be interesting to analise in relation to the body and menstrual symbolism.
4. The ritualistic and performative in relation to the cards in divinatory practices.
Reference: The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Stuart R. Kaplan
