Lori Field: Tiger Tarot
Montclair Art Museum
Montclair | New Jersey | USA
With the tiger as her talisman, Field envisions her tarot as representing a subversive and emerging feminine concept of power. Of her Tiger Tarot, Field states, “tigers are symbolic of a fierce, true inner capacity to survive and rule over their own nature. They take the chaos of the world and create their own space that is protective, and royal.” For Field, the tiger is a bridge between civilizations of the past and the survival of our own.
Though the oldest surviving tarot cards date to the early 1400s in Italy, their imagery points to much earlier forms of mysticism and esoteric philosophies—including Hindu Tantra, the Gnostic Gospels, Celtic paganism, early Kabbalah, and even pre-Islamic Arabia. All these ancient cultures had one thing in common: an archetypal feminine-centered faith.
With the tiger as her talisman, Field envisions her tarot as representing a subversive and emerging feminine concept of power. Of her Tiger Tarot, Field states, “tigers are symbolic of a fierce, true inner capacity to survive and rule over their own nature. They take the chaos of the world and create their own space that is protective, and royal.” For Field, the tiger is a bridge between civilizations of the past and the survival of our own.
Though the oldest surviving tarot cards date to the early 1400s in Italy, their imagery points to much earlier forms of mysticism and esoteric philosophies—including Hindu Tantra, the Gnostic Gospels, Celtic paganism, early Kabbalah, and even pre-Islamic Arabia. All these ancient cultures had one thing in common: an archetypal feminine-centered faith.
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The Montclair Art Museum announced four exciting new shows opening Saturday, September 10, 2022.
Lori Field: Tiger Tarot is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring tarot cards the artist, Montclair native Lori Field, created during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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