a heroine’s journey across 42 paintings
Black Spring Oracle
The 21 Major cards trace the heroine’s journey, while the 21 Minor cards as the supporting elements of the pictorial story.
This deck invites you to interpret the images visually and intuitively, tapping into your creative thinking and uncovering the hidden messages within the subconscious. What comes to mind reflects our current states of being.
Black Spring is a tale of a little girl who, by consoling her shadow, breaks free from constraints and rises beyond them. This is a self-created story woven with old and new symbols that are both personal and universal.
This body of work draws inspiration from tarot decks and other oracle cards. It’s an ancient story retold in a fresh way, combining old and new symbols to offer a fresh understanding of the art of life.
Black Spring Oracle
A tale of a little girl who, by consoling her shadow, breaks free from constraints and rises beyond them.
This series started as paintings and then transformed into lightbox installations for its first showcase in Taipei in 2021. Later, mosswater expanded the series into a deck of oracle cards. Tarot cards were a major source of inspiration for this body of work, thus this pivot felt natural. It seems the paintings were always meant to be shuffled by hands.