Stone Riley's Magic Mirror Tarot Set
About The Art Work
In order to work properly, a Tarot deck must contain a complete
description of human life. This presents a considerable artistic
challenge. Some artists simply abandon hope of making a practical
deck, and use it merely as a set of hooks to hang some fancy pictures
on. But others approach the task by deeply incorporating Tarot
into their life. Of course that's the way to get a good result.
Spirit Hill Tarot is a massive demonstration of a theory of
painting called "New Modern Art". According to
this theory, we can now create a visual language with immense
communicative power by merging the genres of Modern art. For
example symbolist, minimalist and color field techniques - or
any other combinations - can be used together in a picture.
The more that can be managed well, the better. The
painter can thereby offer a hip viewer multiple simultaneous dissonant
or harmonic voices, rather like a chamber orchestra, jazz ensemble or
a capella choir
does, and thus convey a deeper richer meta-message. (Human visual
perception is regarded in the theory as a complex process with many
sub-processes; the major Modern genres are regarded as dialects native
in the various sub-processes.) This is the non-linear multi-channel
"Dionysian" mode of visual perception that is now becoming dominant in our
culture. This kind of painting fits the way more and more people see.
Here's a graphic to illustrate the theory.
New Modern Art: The Theory In A Nutshell