The initial impulse which motivates us..

The Tarot (process) #1

I have noticed similar narratives emerge from both photographs and tarot cards. The tarot is made up of individual facets of the human condition which are distilled and represented in a single card which together as a pack can be viewed as a map of consciousness. In a traditional tarot reading, cards are turned over and placed into sequence in response to a question and a narrative emerges from between the cards and begins to connect them. Photographs are in turn facets themselves, distilled moments from a lifetime which, when viewed together, map out the story of our own lives. The initial impulse which motivates us to raise a camera in the first place stages the context (or question) which lies at a photograph's heart and contains within it the full unabridged biography of its author. Meaning photographs, like the tarot, are powerful psychological tools for exploring facets of our own psyches which may not otherwise be accessible to us and can only be read and comprehended as images.