Nick helped a lot with the reconception of this one. It's firmly based in both of the traditional images for the card, but turns pretty much everything inside out. As usual.
I worked on this all night instead of socializing much with
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read_alicia when she visited. Sorry about that - I just didn't have much social juice tonight, I guess. Storing up for going in to the Museum again for a few days next week, I suppose.
2007-11-17 08:42 am (UTC)
2007-11-17 09:51 am (UTC)
I hope you add a précis with the production because I am interested inhow you've turned the tradional context around but am too lazy to research all the standard information on them. :^P
2007-11-17 03:34 pm (UTC)
In this case, there are two images for Fortitude/Strength. One is a woman with a lion, one is a woman breaking a pillar. She's often shown as wrestling or subduing the lion, holding its jaws open, or somesuch. The lion is the image you're more likely to find a version of if you pick up a Tarot deck at random; the pillar mostly fell by the wayside as the deck changed from its medieval origin into more modern times. I'd initially intended to go with the array of caryatids by itself, but decided to put the lion in both for some asymmetry and motion, and to make the set of symbols more dense.
2007-11-18 12:17 pm (UTC)