Hierophant Creator of the Quintessential Tarot
Live Painting at Utopiafest 2022
Sarah Longridge
Sereda is a Visionary Artist from Central TX currently living and working in San Antonio. She has particpated as a live-painter and gallery artist in Texas music & art events since 2014, and continues to display her work in various galleries and venues throughout the state. Her current work-in-progress is a series of 78 paintings to be compiled upon completion into the “Quintessential Tarot,” a deck of Tarot Cards blending natural, esoteric, and historic imagery. Sereda uses her layered, visionary acrylic painting style to create hidden and dualistic imagery that seeks to reveal the synchronicities and dichotomies pervasive to our percieved reality.
QUINTESSENTIAL TAROT DECK
The TAROT has existed as a game of life since at least the 15th century. The name of the game is itself a puzzle that references both the relentless ROTAtions of our light-wheels (the paths of the planets and stars viewed from Terra, the TER-ROTA) and the rote memory or remembered stories of our species. Contained within the image details of the cards are allegories that summarize and disguise long-held human beliefs about the makeup of our reality. These specialized decks of playing cards emerged in our history at the same time that Medieval Hermeticists began using "Wheels of Memory" to unlock secrets of the universe. The oldest known Italian Tarocchi decks were developed during the beginnings of the Renaissance, a bi-product of the expansion of the collective consciousness thanks to new printing methods and synthesis of ancient oral and moral histories/mythologies into new writings and artworks. The decks themselves are just as magical as our Spells (language, writing, speech, song) & Crafts (creative activities), but they also have an ability to preserve parts of our humanity that are intangibly true, each card exposing an ineffable yet necessary paradox of our understanding.
A new TAROT is needed for the Renaissance we are currently experiencing, a deck that layers modern ideologies and realities with historic interpretations of the cards. The Quintessential Tarot seeks to establish a harmony between symbols and stories from major ancient religions and civilizations as well as modern scientific theories, mathematics and technologies. Each card is layered with traditional and natural imagery, sacred geometry, astrological signs from multiple zodiacs, references to ancient cultures and figures from art history, writings, poems, songs, and more. In the layers of paint I've coded hexagrams, runes, angelic sigils, and constellations visible from our planet. All of these symbols are mathematically connected through their numeric identities within the Tarot Wheels. I'm also crafting a guidebook, an "esoteric ESTORIE," outlining the origins and implications of the symbols I've employed in creating this deck.
If you would like to support the creation of the Quintessential Tarot in its current phase please follow my progress on social media and check out my merchandise! You can donate directly to my supplies fund using the Venmo code below, or by supporting me through Patreon (also below:)
Contact
Seredasart@gmail.com