Tarotism began during the pandemic as an intimate process of searching for embodied identity. One by one, people would come to my home. We would read tarot together, talk, and decide which archetype they wanted to inhabit. Sometimes the embodiment was co-created; sometimes it was a solitary exercise.
I photographed each participant as a tarot archetype, using simple costuming and objects they brought from their own lives. The sessions became small rituals of becoming, a way to test identities, shift roles, and explore non-fixed ways of being during a moment of global uncertainty.
In total 57 portraits were made and 33 remain to be done. (maybe during the next pandemic)
This project eventually grew into The Non-Human Institute for Humanity, where the private practices of embodiment, archetype, and self-invention transitioned into a public installation and participatory performance.
