Hyperrealism is the genre of painting or sculptures that resemble or portray real life and offshoot of photorealism. Photorealism is a painting, drawings or other graphic medium in which an artist tries to replica a photograph. These movements were born with Pop Art in the 60’s and 70’s. Ron Mueck creates hyperrealism sculptures, and what sets him apart is his use of scale.
He grew up around dolls and puppets in his parents business, and became a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television, films such as Labyrinth and worked in Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop. Then in 1996 he started creating fine art sculptures. Mueck uses resin, fiberglass, silicone, and many other materials, constructing hyperrealistic likenesses of mostly human beings, while playing with scale. When asked why Mueck plays with size he said: Life-size figures … never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day. Altering the scale makes you take notice in a way that you wouldn’t do with something that’s just normal.
It is interesting that this concept of scale with the human form resonates in our human psyche. Take for instance, the TV show Land of the Giants or the stories Thumbelina, The Little Peach Boy, Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in Wonderland or as far back The Odyssey. All of these stories have the theme of large and small. Is it our biological fear of being prey that has us pondering size especially in contrast to us? When we play with scale particularly with our human form we end up observing things that are commonplace in a new way. This is the beauty, awe and sometimes horror and disgust of looking through a magnifying glass, microscope or telescope. Playing with scale not only has us observing the ordinary and everyday closer, but it also has us questioning our place in the Universe. And that is a great exercise with this kind of art.
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*Aries – Death
The Death card is an appropriate as you head into the winter months. This week has that feel of slow natural change that happens each season. This card asks you questions like: What cycles are you starting up again? What ideas or projects do you want to store and work on next year? What do you want to let die or finish before spring? This week start mulling these questions in your head, so by winter Solstice you will have a good strategy and platform for 2019.
*Taurus – Strength
You are going to need your strength this week. Not because the outside world is trying your patience, but this week is more about your internal struggle to get things done. This card wants you to assess how you hold yourself back. Do you think you are not strong enough? Or are your opinions and expectations too strong? Does your will power not let you rest or does it drag you down into inertia? The Strength card shows up right before one needs to gather their strength to create momentum with the material goals in life. While the rest of us are hibernating, winter will be the perfect time for you all to kick ass, so use this time to garner your strength.
Continue reading Tarotcast for Week Of November 25, 2018
This week can feel a bit binding with the Eight of Swords. This card foretells that between your thoughts and your obligations you might feel a bit trapped. The challenge is realizing this binding feeling is all in your hands. The obligations and thoughts can easily be let go of if you are truthful with the reasons behind them.
The Ten of Pentacles brings another week of focusing on building your net worth. What you have going right now is a pretty good gig. Keep at it and adding to it.
Happy Birthday Scorpio. The above is what I consider the cutest snake in the world; however it is venomous. It is the tree dwelling bush viper found only in ancient rain forest of sub-Saharan Africa.
Last week, the High Priestess challenged you to go within, find your center and then watch cycles. This week the Knight of Pentacles has you take what you learned last week and turn outward applying it to what you are doing in the world. This is a week were being practical is paramount.
The King of Pentacles is the doer and builder of the lower arcane. Take that energy he brings to you expanding on work, projects and anything that has to do with the material plane. Your only challenge is not to “bulldoze” anything into existence. So be careful how and what you are treading on to get to get things done.
The Page of Swords comes to advise that you need to uncover information that is hard to find without inquiry and a bit of sleight of hand. The Page of Swords is the card of the spy. So some sleuth work is needed before you make any decision or move forward this week.
The past two weeks the World wanted you to finish up the old to create room for new, and then the Lovers card wanted you to start creating with others. Now the energy shifts to the Two of Pentacles, the card of balance and juggling. This card advises you to juggle just two things this week and get very secure with your balance between these two items before you add another item or project into your hands.
The Page of Cups comes when you need to be reminded about the joy in life. This card wants you to see, hear, and touch with the senses of a child. This is week get out your coloring books, Playdough, Legos, or your favorite toy and play.
Last week, the Fool challenged you to acknowledge and let go of the excess so you can pack lighter for the road ahead. The Lovers continues this theme. Its challenge is for you to pick companions on this journey. Take this week to make sure the ones around you support you. This can be as simple as making sure you have the right people to work on a project or as complex as evaluate the broader community around you. Your motto: Love is my guide.
Last week, the Empress wanted you to find something that you truly love doing and do it bigger and better. The Queen of Swords continues this theme but has you hone in on the strategic part of your plan. This week stay in your mind and plan than worry about actions of the future.
The theme continues with more building and growing with the Sun, last week the Magician called in new ideas and processes to continue building on what you started. This week the Sun not only continues this theme but ignites it with energy. Your challenge is how to harness this energy and use it like a laser. Your motto: Keep growing and expanding.
The Ace of Pentacles is the last card of your birth month and declares this year as a year of planting seeds for projects to grow until 2020. So take this week to figure out what seeds you want to plant and tend in your garden for the coming year.
The King of Wands challenges you this week to be more creative and passionate about what you are doing. The conundrum comes when what you do brings no passion into your life. If this is so then this week might be the time to make some changes in what rules your daily life.
The Four of Cups is the card of disenchantment or not seeing what is offered is pretty darn spectacular and ultimately what you feel is missing. The challenge with this card is getting into and enjoying the rhythm of the everyday emotional tides or currents. By seeing the paradox of stability in motion or ” emotional flow” and then devoting yourself to it gives you the last piece of your puzzle. Motto: In the ordinary I see the extraordinary.
The Knight of Pentacle is the card of methodical and thoughtful movement. The challenges with this card are pace and the movement forward. This week all your activities should move you forward at a slow and steady pace. If they are not this is the week to get rid of or adjust them so they do.
The Wheel is the card of change of karma and fate. When this card shows up it means this is a turning point in your life that no matter what it feels like your fortune is changing. The challenge with this card is to see the only control you have is to spin the wheel. You cannot control the spin or pick the price. What comes this week is your gift how you use it is up to you. Your motto: Doesn’t hurt to try.
Last week, the High Priestess challenged you to pull into your inner-scape and plug into your intuition; you will be able to sync yourself with your life path. Now we know why, the World has shown up to challenge you to close old doors and open new ones. You got the World almost to the date last month, so you get another crack at it. This week take this energy and finalize some old projects or people and at the same time go out and look for new projects or people. The World wants to help your challenge is you will need to go to new haunts to greet it. Your motto: I am open to the new.
Mother’s Day… I’m thinking about all the people who Mother’s Day maybe hard to celebrate. I’m thinking of all the mothers who have lost children. I’m thinking of my friends and others that have lost their mothers. I’m thinking of those people who have a hard relationship with their mom, or mothers that have tense relationships with their children. I’m thinking about all of those that have chosen not to be a mother, like myself. You should be celebrated too because you choose an alternative way to give that energy. And I’m also sending energy for all those who want to be mothers. May you find mothering with ease.
I see why you needed your rest last week, you got the Tower card for this week. The Tower’s challenge is about change in which we have no control over. The best way to deal with this card is to react as if you are either surfing or kayaking white waters. Know you cannot stop the force of the water but you can navigate it without danger by subtly shifting your stance or dipping in your oars.
The Four of Pentacles challenges you to save your resources this week. Whether that is your time, space, or money, you can identify what is precious with how it feels when you are limited by it. It is a great time to start saving but be aware not to be miserly to those close to you.
The High Priestess challenges you to work on your intuition skills. You will gain more insight when you step back and look at the big picture then to focus on details.
The Ten of Cups is the party card of the deck and it doesn’t come up too often. This card challenges you to have a good time.
The Hanged Man is the card of stagnation, side projects and spiritual quests. Take the down-time this cards brings to you to go off the beaten path and tend to your spirit to find peace and stillness. This can look like mediating at a Zen garden, or taken a left turn when you want to go right.
Be careful of melancholy this week. When the Five of Cups shows up it challenges you to find two things good in every “bad” thing that happens. There are lessons for you in losses this week.
Last week, the Wheel gave you the choice of changing your fortune by saying yes to opportunities. The Emperor continues this by having you build on things you said yes to and found that you like it. This can look as simple as building a friendship that started last week, or as complex as building on that new business idea.
This week is all about your choices. Last week you had two big karma cards of Judgment-evolution and the Star – healing and hope. The theme of choosing to heal the past to pave the way to the portals of evolution continues this week. For those of you that choose or are chosen for the Tower, you still will have to deal with healing but you will have released the pace or outcome of that change/evolution. For those who choose to take the slower more controlled path the Nine of Pentacles challenges you to pull back from the world and contemplate what to do next.
The Six of Pentacles continues the theme of last week’s World card looking for opportunities that lead to the next phase sometime after mid-July. Remember last week challenging you to make your micro-cosmos represent your macro-cosmos. The Six of Pentacles challenges this at a karmic level. For all the good little deeds you put out in the world, they will come back to you three-fold in your macro-karma however so does the negative. So this week open doors for people, say thank you, or make someone cookies just because it is a nice thing to do. Be careful not to purposely offend someone, flip someone a bird on the road, or in general be aware of your material, spiritual and emotional footprint.
The King of Cups wants you to master your emotions. This King has you look at how you emotional deal with the outside world. Your challenge – to open up and reveal a bit of yourself to acquaintances.
The theme of last week’s Magician card bringing in the divine to the material world continues this week. Refine your focus to your home and home life, so this week your challenge is to focus on projects at and about your home. You will feel more at ease and accomplished in the outside world if your home is in order.
Last week, the Emperor told you to build, create, and conquer. Now the feminine version of that creative energy, the Empress, appears this week. The Empress’s energy is less of the hustle and bustle of Emperor last week energy and more about tending, grooming, and coaxing along your work. The challenge with the Empress is being open to a more organic approach then sticking to plans.
The Ten of Pentacles brings prosperity to those that finish their work. This card is about finishing up projects. Your challenge is to work on the projects that are close to finish first, before starting anything new. You will find the more you can check off your list the more new prosperity will begin to grow.
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