"Two of Cups"

20” x 30” Found imagery, Gold, Ink, collage on water color paper 2019

Inspired by 15th-century tarot, divination, and playing cards, “Organic Tarot ” explores the process of reshaping archived documentary style representations of Black ShareCroppers and ex-slaves reimagined as divine inspirational bodies in space. Intended to create a broader complexity of Black identity stripped of tragic TransAtlantic histories, Organic Tarot, investigates archived material as a method of decolonization of the marginalized mind.

Four of Wands

"The King of Cups"

20” x 30” Found imagery, Gold, Ink, collage on water color paper 2019 | Denver Art Museum, 2019, Denver CO

The Suit of Cups is associated with the element of water. Water is fluid, agile and in flux but it’s also very powerful and formative. It can be soft and gentle, like waves lapping against the sandy shore, or it can be powerful and even forceful, like a raging river. So as the spoons travel into the cup, The King of cups reminds us to be like water. Remain fluid and ever changing in our actions. Continuously growing as he remains balanced upon his throne/foundation. Here, the Spoons symbolize wands and represent energy, spirituality, inspiration, determination, strength, intuition, creativity, ambition and expansion, original thought and the seeds through which life springs forth, into the Cup of life...