Tarot cards have been used for centuries to tell people’s fortune and predict the future but in the present age our future, collectively they are not just psychic but instead psychoterraric (Albrecht, 2017), in other words our psychic Life is linked inherently to the future of terra, the earth. In this piece I have drawn a series of ecologically-themed cards depicting Victorian-esque images of biological animal drawings, plant cells and botanicals to exemplify this - cards which when assembled inevitably continue to fall. There can be little solace in a fortune told of the ecology given the current dire environmental implications we are facing. My piece aims to capture our status in pre-traumatic times, art for the coming apocalypse, built on nostalgia.
