tarot

The Justice of Judgment /  by kelly heaton

The Justice of Judgment, 2021. Installation of wooden panel with acrylic paint (48” x 48” x2”) and mixed media sculpture (60” x 36” x 36”). Audio is an edit of Monty Python’s “Holy Grail,” 1975

The Moon /  by kelly heaton

Details of a new work in-progress: The Moon, inspired by Tarot.

spirit world: la sirena /  by kelly heaton

Costa Rican shallows
The Queen of Cups from the Rider Tarot Deck
Vishnu assumes his fish avatara, Matsya, holding the Shanka
La Sirena from Loteria

wild card: pura vida /  by kelly heaton

The Lovers, Arenal, Rincon de la Vieja, Cabuya (photo: Javier Quiros)

spirit world: the chariot /  by kelly heaton

Left to right: Apollo's Chariot by Odilon Redon; 16th c. illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Eternity; evening cape by Elsa Schiaparelli and House of Lesage; The Chariot from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck (artist Pamela Coleman Smith)

inspiration: material girl monday /  by kelly heaton

Top row, from left to right: The Fool; Internet shopping; juggling limited finances
Bottom row, from left to right: The Fool overturned; detail from Jaro Hess' "The Land of Make Believe" (1930); the artist back at work.  Tarot cards are from the Rider deck.

spirit: coyote on the horizon /  by kelly heaton

Knight of pentacles, a messenger for matters of security; coyote, trickster and instigator of change that you are better to accept than fight against; Olive Oatman, pioneer who was captured and sold to the Mohave during the 1850s