The abyss looks back into you
A black mirror is an instrument of magical practice. Opaque and unsettling, rather than reflecting the outward reality, it forces anyone who looks into it to acknowledge their own, internal truth, the deepest, unknown darkness of their soul.
Black Mirror & Other Side of the Black Mirror Tarot decks (June-September 2015) draw inspiration from the Nietzschean notion of the abyss gazing back into whomever gazes into it, as well as from the Platonic concept of a parallel universe mirroring the one in which we exist. The inverted and upturned characters of their lettering convey the idea of a reverse eidolon, a deforming image of oneself, of one's reflection and of the world as we have been conditioned to perceive, understand and interpret it.
The traditional Major Arcana figures are reinvented in a modern, often subversive manner, their symbolisms re(en)coded and expanded into a philosophical, sometimes humorous, macabre or even deliberately grotesque view of the standard Tarot emblems and connotations.
What is real and what is simply a reflection of reality? What is true and what is an illusion? Which is the face and which is the mask? Are we in fact capable of establishing objective truths or solid certitudes? And what if everything we are able to see and conceive of, including our existence itself, is but a collective mirage?
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