Magdalena Tarot Old Tyme Tarot Card “Death XIII” is Featured in the Creative Arts Club Surrealist Landscape Show opening on 1/8. It’s cool because they will be showing prints of my art! And I get half of the sales. They listed me as my birth name but it’s me

The fearured piece is ”Death XIII”, a surreal collage of the Death Tarot card that I created from my vast collection of rare antique and vintage post cards and photos.

I created The Old Tyme Tarot because I needed royalty free Tarot cards to accompany my column in Witch Way Magazine. I was inspired to use vintage and antique photos by the surrealist collages of John Craig for The Smashing Pumpkins album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

I worked at Antique Broker, an antique store in Denver, CO, on the weekends in exchange for vintage and antique photos. I chose a photo of an Indigenous scaffold burial for the desolate landscape. I did not include the actual scaffold burial because I didn’t think it was respectful, but I did include an image of a decaying animal from the landscape to capture the essence of death. I used photos of bombed out buildings from World War II because World War II didn’t just bring about the death of millions of people, it was the death of an era. I wanted the sky to look Apocalyptic so I and an antique postcard for the sunset.

But “ Death XIII” is part of a much bigger series. I actually have about half of a Tarot deck completed using the same process. I haven’t been able to work on it in a few years because I have to keep moving my office and funds are tight, but I want share what I have so far because I’m proud of the project.

You can view the completed cards at the included link.

If there’s an image you would like to see printed, let me know and I’ll make it available for you as I work on making collectable prints of the best cards available on my art Etsy! (Link in comments) My idea is to sell them as collectible cards that can be used as postcards, frameable art or even used to build your own deck