the well beneath
Beneath The Tribute Tarot lies a wider body of work. Long before the deck — and continuing alongside it — my practice has moved across materials and mediums: drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, and digital construction. I’m drawn to what shifts, overlaps, and accumulates — the strange kinships between objects, marks, and ideas.
My process often begins with repetition, small acts of observation, or found materials that carry memory. Through layering, manipulation, and transformation, I seek out textures that speak metaphor as much as matter. These works are not decorative; they form a kind of language — visual rhythms built to be felt as well as seen.
What appears here is selected from a much larger body of work made across decades and geographies. Together they form the ground from which the tarot deck arose — the deeper practice beneath the surface of the cards.
%202022%20Abracadabra%20Drawings%20as%20prints.jpg)
_edited.jpg)
this is only a glimpse.
The works above span decades, geographies, and phases of thought
— but they share the same impulse that shaped The Tribute Tarot: the urge to notice, to transform, to persist. Whether through velvet and pigment, thread and shell, or image and idea, I’ve always worked with what’s at hand — and what insists on being seen.
↩ Return to Artist’s Influences — where intention meets its lineage
You can explore more of my wider practice at
www.sandlaurenson.com