Monday, May 30, 2011


A Hanged Man from Graham's Illustrated Magazine (1857).

Friday, May 27, 2011

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
—Jeff McBride

Wednesday, May 25, 2011


From Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988). Via.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

"You ask, 'Why does God not reveal the future to us?' Ask yourselves why you do not believe you are God, for then you would know the future, would create it yourselves; each one of you would create that part that is his to create, and from that part, each of you would be able to see the whole."
—Gustav Meyrink, Walpurgisnacht

Friday, May 20, 2011


The Knight of Swords: a detail from "Joan of Arc" (1828). See the full context here.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011


The Emperor: a detail from "Joan of Arc" (1828). See the full context here.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Jean-Francois Garneray pulled out all the stops in this portrait of Napoleon. There is the crown of laurel leaves, an actual crown, a staff, an ermine robe, a carved lion figure, and of course the obligatory throne. A perfect, if slightly operatic, evocation of the Emperor archetype.

Sunday, May 15, 2011


The Lovers: a detail from "Forty Thieves, or The Story of Ali Baba and His Female Slave Morgiana" (1803). See the full context here.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011


An illustration of Fortune and Her Wheel, from a 15th century edition of Boccaccio's On the Fate of Famous Men.

Monday, May 9, 2011


A queen of coins: a detail from "Forty Thieves, or The Story of Ali Baba and His Female Slave Morgiana" (1803). See the full context here.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

the tarot is frozen, melt it with your breath
Enrique Enriquez

Friday, May 6, 2011


Two of Wands: a detail from "The Entertaining History of Robin Hood, & Little John" (1809). See full context here.