Managing my

Thought I’d show a bit of my thought process around visual themes in decks - and life - along with mental overwhelm and what that looks like. What does overwhelm look like for you?

Image sources, links, etc are listed below. PLEASE NOTE - I did my best to find proper sources for the pinterest images but not with great success… MAYBE there’d be less overwhelm if citing image credits were the norm!?

Time Stamps:

01:25 - Neurodivergence & Use
07:38 - Historical Decks
***Tarot by Jacques Vieville
***Golden Tarot by Kat Black
***The Carnival at the End of the World Tarot (‘plague’ edition)
16:36 - 19th c. symbolism & folk arts
***The Lonely Dreamer Tarot
***Pagan Otherworlds Tarot
***Hush Tarot
24:00 - Fantastical Glitter Goth Faerie…core
***Brian Froud Faeries Oracle
***Somnia Tarot
***Trionfi della Luna - paradoxical illustrated pips
31:21 - Conundrum Deck
***Joie de Vivre Tarot
35:59 - Concluding Thoughts & Questions

Image Links and Sources 
(Pinterest 🙄 the site where image credits go to DIE…)
https://pin.it/5G6A1jr
https://pin.it/7lBYdJ1
Rugs from my childhood home…
Welsh wool throws - https://pin.it/6qnSGie
Detail from a Fresco of St. Francis of Assisi and the Virgin Mary, 1382 
(Originally in the Monastery of St. Francesco, now in the Academy of Carrara, Bergamo)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1530
(Housed in Stuttgart, Germany - there are a few different versions of this painting!)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
*Detail from the St. Stephen Altarpiece Church of Santa Maria de Gualter (Noguera), c. 1385 
(Housed in the Musuem of Catalan Art, Barcelona) - I found the image here:  http://evashistoricalcostumes.blogspo...
The Birth of Mary, c. 1470 - in Alte Pinakothek, Munich 
(included on the 4 of Wands in the Golden Tarot by Kat Black!!!) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Young Woman with a Pink - Hans Memling - 1485-90
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Portrait of a Young Girl - Petrus Christus - ca. 1470 (Housed in Berlin)
Portrait of a Woman [Katharina Furlegerin] with her Hair Up - Albrecth Dürer - 1497 (Housed in Berlin)
Still Life of a Jug and Flowers (reverse side of a portrait of a praying man) - Hans Memling - 1480 - https://pin.it/5rexvCC 
Painting/collage by me - called “Bright Horses” after the Nick Cave song…
https://pin.it/5DQ3Jbj
https://johannabradford.elle.se/inspi...
https://pin.it/Vj1Eb6i (1825?)
NOTE! This image is from Sweden - not Eastern Europe -
I HATE THAT PINTERST DOES THIS!!!!! 
Here’s a better resource on THIS image: http://theswedishfurniture.com/archiv...
(And for actual Eastern European image examples, you could look into the famous wall art of Polina Rayko - she’s been featured on @thegreatwomenartists on Instagram - or @polishfolks on instagram etc.)
https://pin.it/2BrpChT
https://pin.it/2ri78FL 
Sarah and Hoggle - Labyrinth (1986)
The Gryphon from “The Luck Child” - Jim Henson’s “The Storyteller” (1988)
The Devilish Devils from “The Soldier and Death” - Jim Henson’s “The Storyteller”
Nightwish (1996 - still going) album covers shown: Once (2004), Imaginaerum (2011), Human. :||: Nature. (2020)
Lunar Falls - Suldusk (2019)
By Still Waters - Beautiful Death (2021)
Tales of the Night Forest - Silent Island & Black Hill (2018)
“Sheila Rae the Brave” (1987) and “Chrysanthemum” (1991) are by Kevin Henkes
Miss Spider BOOKS (not screen adaptations) by David Kirk - starting in the 1990s…
*Fairy Tales by E. E. Cummings - pictures by John Eaton - first edition, 1965

Outro music played by me 😜…a silly modern rendition of a late 14th century Italian tune - “Saltarello”