Uel Aramchek's Tarot Arcana
In February 2015, Uel Aramchek, writer specializing in short, weird fiction, started to describe an additional set of arcana, modern ephemerals antipodes to the 22 traditional major arcana. I drew them soon afterwards and a Kickstarter was even made to print a live version of this Tarot.
Each card answers, in order, to the Major Arcana, often defeating or outclassing them. You'll find my interpretation of them below, alongside the original description.
En Février 2015, Uel Aramchek, écrivain spécialisé en courtes fictions, bizarres ou surréalistes, commença à décrire un set additionnel d'arcanes du tarot, réponses modernes et éphémères aux 22 arcanes majeures traditionnelles. Je les ai dessinées peu de temps après et un Kickstarter a même été fait pour en imprimer une version physique.
Chaque carte répond, dans l’ordre, aux 22 arcanes majeures, les vainquant ou dépassant bien souvent. Vous trouverez ci-dessous l’interprétation dessinée que j’en fis aux côtés de la description originale
XXIII - The Network
The Network, representing the crossing paths of a thousand fools at what each each thought was the end of their journey.
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XXIV - The Android
Cloaked in velvet robes that once belonged to the Magician who built him, standing on the bones that remain.
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XXV - The Quasar
Worshipped by a mechanical priestess whose skull is a telescope. The omen is indifferent to her kneeling form.
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XXVI - The Corporation
depicted as a mermaid empress breaking alkaline batteries in half and pouring their contents into a mug.
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XXVII - The Board of Directors
an assembly of nine emperors slowly being devoured by the sharp-toothed lapels of their jackets.
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XXVIII - The Satellite
babbling waves of madness in electromagnetic cursive, artificial hierophant to the glass prophets below.
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XXIX - The Atom
whose protons and neutrons are depicted as waltzing lovers split by lightning. The ballroom beyond is burning.
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XXX - The Drone
a faceless falcon with kevlar feathers, horse-drawn chariots swinging like pendulums from its eightfold talons.
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XXXI - Conspiracy
A tattered flag of eyes and stripes flutters in whispers of hurricane strength. The clouds have eyes as well.
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XXXII - The Hitchhiker
a buffalo-headed hermit who stalks an empty desert highway. His shadow is shaped like a mushroom cloud.
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XXXIII: The Game Show
whose smiling host grips a bladed microphone. An ill-fortuned contestant waits on his halogen-lit altar.
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XXXIV: Uprising
A two-headed elephant trumpets wildly while crushing a riot-geared angel of justice with its bifurcated trunk.
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XXXV - The Supervillain
on a throne crafted from the bones of oil derricks. A tattered red cape hangs from his neck as a sash.
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XXXVI: Singularity
Death floats towards us as a skeletal astronaut. Behind him, a sarcophagus is being built around the sun.
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XXXVII - Propaganda
A garden of televisions is blooming. Hummingbirds drink white noise from their screens without temperance.
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XXXVIII - The Terrorist
Backwards wrists and compound eyes are all that separate this devil with a briefcase from those nearby.
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XXXIX - The Black Iron Prison
A tangled heap of crash-test dummies fills the space between a radio tower's haphazard trusses.
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XL - Virtual Reality
Colorful polygons drift like icebergs across an ocean of dark mercury. Black stars punctuate a white sky.
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XLI - Global Warming
The aristocrats of a lunar metropolis drink cognac as a crescent earth burns in their otherwise black sky.
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XLII - The Time Machine
A figure in prison stripes takes his hammer to a giant orrery. He wears the sun like a ball and chain.
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XLIII - The Final Boss
Atop a lone mountain, the angel of judgment unfurls moth-like wings. Far below, a hero draws his sword.
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XLIV - The Rogue Planet
Jupiter is partially eclipsed by a sphere of fanged darkness suspended in space by Atlas's twin sister.
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