- 3. The Empress —
Abundance everywhere. Wheat at her feet, stars in her crown, a child in her belly or not.
🎴 See the full card: #2023nts/#2023/majarc-3-empress" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://markmeadows.com/paints/#2023/majarc-3-empress
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🎵 Music: @its.ffiiaa

- 2. The High Priestess —
She sits between two pillars. One black, one white. She's not choosing. She's the threshold itself. 🎴 See the full card: #2023nts/#2023/majarc-2-priestess" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://markmeadows.com/paints/#2023/majarc-2-priestess
🃏 Full deck preview: https://markmeadows.com/paints/2023/tarot
🎵 Music: @its.ffiiaa

- 1. The Magician —
One hand up, one hand down. As above, so below. On the table: wand, cup, coin (I replaced the sword with the flame).
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🃏 Full deck preview: https://markmeadows.com/paints/2023/tarot

- 0. The Fool —
The Fool steps off the cliff. Not falling. This is the card before the story starts, when everything is possible.
🎴 See the full card: #2023nts/#2023/majarc-0-fool" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://markmeadows.com/paints/#2023/majarc-0-fool
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🎵 Music: @its.ffiiaa

Tarot cards I’ve been working on. 3
Yrs now. Almost ready.

Hysterical* cultural trends of, um, today.

7, 8 and 9 of wands

This DOGE cage-rattling is exposing NASA's true core. 💛🤯 Here's words I heard around the office this week.

"We eat chaos for breakfast."
"Let's show what we're made of."
"Our job is to map wicked spaces. We live here."
"We will get through this together."
And, "NASA is not Twitter."

🥄🔪

Maybe the easiest way to be happy is to be kind. After that, i suppose, healthy. Then unserious.

Back from visiting fambly in deep Tennessee, spent the weekend shooting guns, chewing tobacco and driving trucks. Weirdly, it was exactly like similar family visits to deep Brittany, France. Pride in traditions.

Terroirists, both. Lovely terroirists.

Yesterday I was sworn in as a NASA Civil Servant. It’s an honor and an oath I take sincerely - I quite literally promised I will serve to my best abilities in the interest of our American constitution. My father did it, now my turn.

Its uh like Star Trek or the prequel to a zombie movie. I 💙 it!

Its summer solstice!

Welcome to the hottest summer in over 100,000 years.

The last time global temperatures were likely similar to or higher than present levels was during the previous interglacial period, known as the Eemian, which occurred about 125,000 years ago.

“A Pie Chart of Apple Pie.”
Being a lazy artist, I built a GPT (OpenAI’ GPT-4) of “Art the Info-Graphic Designer” — mixed results since infographics a pretty high octane work. But we have a start. I don’t think Butt should be included in apple pie, and we clearly have cognitive mixing of languages.

Behold, 86th & Lexington in Harlem. Such typography at repeated details. Who did these? The Dual Contractors?

The station opened on July 17, 1918, with service initially running between Grand Central–42nd Street and 167th Street

Never sure if the internal dialogues help balance any little thing. But I continue trying and will post drawings, writing, first-person frustums here. Hello world.