Anne Herlihy

Intaglio Tarot

2019

I have been working on a series of etchings/aquatints based on the major arcana of the Tarot. It is an intuitive exploration, both of the images I made, and of the way that they will be used. Knowing very little about the Tarot, I used it as an intuitive journey, much as it is used in practice to elicit and reveal the practitioner’s inner life. This suggested to me that the Tarot can be another form of portraiture. My subjects choose 3 cards, a traditional tarot reading format, representing the Past, the Present, and the Future, and I do a reading. Then, as a form of portraiture, I create a portrait pulling a print of those 3 plates on one page.