Strength (Signed Gicleé Print)
Illustration for the “Strength” card in the Woven Path Tarot.
Knowing very little about tarot before the project started, I was humbled when they gave me one of the Major Arcana to illustrate.
Traditionally, “Strength” features a maiden and a lion. The lion is passion - your feelings, your id - and the maiden is the ego, taming that lion. While I’m sure that works for many people, I saw a different vision of strengfth.
Coming from a more wholistic place, I see the two parts as there for each other, supporting eacn other, and in so doing both being stronger. After all, if you can channel both id and ego, you can heal from pretty much anything.
I chose a tiger instead of the lion to match this maybe more “Asian” take on strength, and because I am obsessed with tigers. The girl and the tiger also share their space with lotus flowers, which are connected with meditation and mindfulness, and also actually clean the water they live in.
Illustration for the “Strength” card in the Woven Path Tarot.
Knowing very little about tarot before the project started, I was humbled when they gave me one of the Major Arcana to illustrate.
Traditionally, “Strength” features a maiden and a lion. The lion is passion - your feelings, your id - and the maiden is the ego, taming that lion. While I’m sure that works for many people, I saw a different vision of strengfth.
Coming from a more wholistic place, I see the two parts as there for each other, supporting eacn other, and in so doing both being stronger. After all, if you can channel both id and ego, you can heal from pretty much anything.
I chose a tiger instead of the lion to match this maybe more “Asian” take on strength, and because I am obsessed with tigers. The girl and the tiger also share their space with lotus flowers, which are connected with meditation and mindfulness, and also actually clean the water they live in.
Illustration for the “Strength” card in the Woven Path Tarot.
Knowing very little about tarot before the project started, I was humbled when they gave me one of the Major Arcana to illustrate.
Traditionally, “Strength” features a maiden and a lion. The lion is passion - your feelings, your id - and the maiden is the ego, taming that lion. While I’m sure that works for many people, I saw a different vision of strengfth.
Coming from a more wholistic place, I see the two parts as there for each other, supporting eacn other, and in so doing both being stronger. After all, if you can channel both id and ego, you can heal from pretty much anything.
I chose a tiger instead of the lion to match this maybe more “Asian” take on strength, and because I am obsessed with tigers. The girl and the tiger also share their space with lotus flowers, which are connected with meditation and mindfulness, and also actually clean the water they live in.
