Notes From The Garret

“Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don’t always know where I am going or what it means” I came across Leonora Carrington when I discovered her Major Arcana, put out by Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq. She created the 22 images in the 1950s, which were rediscovered following her 2011 death and exhibited for the first time for her centennial exhibition 2018. Soon the deck was published. But with the rush on the much sought after images, they vanished from print before I could procure myself a set. An expanded edition by Fulgur Press is presently out of my pocket’s reach. "Sun," Leonora Carrington, Tarot Major Arcana, 1950s "Star," Leonora Carrington, Tarot Major Arcana, 1950s So when Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg announced a Carrington exhibit I went as much to discover her as to hope the deck might be found in their giftshop (it was not, but of the choice of three, there was the deck I got myself as consolation). The show’s dates included Museum Night, Europe’s festival ...