Can a postage stamp album serve as a mystical guidebook to the universe? The visionary Polish writer and fine artist Bruno Schulz certainly believed it could, as he explores in Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. His meditations on postage stamps as "handy amulets" forming "a book of truth and splendor" inspired us to piece together a Tarot deck of stamps from around the world. We reveal our progress and explain the concept here:
The Stamp Album Tarot
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
Some highlights of our vintage Tarot/divination finds over at Spotted in the Wild:
An unmistakable Tower crops up in a mystery novel
A Ten of Wands feels the heat
An astrologer from Siam
A King of Cups
Justice meets a Page of Cups
An unmistakable Tower crops up in a mystery novel
A Ten of Wands feels the heat
An astrologer from Siam
A King of Cups
Justice meets a Page of Cups
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