Tarot 

When the game of Tarot first crossed my path consciously it was immediately clear that the only way to work

with Tarot - as it was also clear there was no way back - would be to create one. The first Tarot edition is made

intuitively based on what we could call the basic grid of traditional tarot decks as the ‘Tarot de Marseille’, mixed

with the artistic practice, multiple works and performance elements. The whole package became like a pocket-

catalogue to get a better understanding of the different layers of the work I was doing over the past 15 years

or so. I made some changes in names, interpretation, merged elements I was working with and erased and

polished some of the archaic as swords and kings. Once this Tarot was published I started working with it slowly

and discovering what I had made. At the time I also started reading and studying it more, something I wanted

to avoid to much before making the first deck of cards myself knowing once I would devote myself to study I

wouldn’t get it into practice that fluid. Having worked with this tarot on and off the past 4 to 5 years, I discovered

the beauty of this intuitive path that was more then once matching to the ancient tradition of this play of cards,

but also discovered gaps, gaps I couldn’t be consciously aware of at the time. These gaps started create

themselves as they filled themselves with a new era in the artistic practice, the materialized obsession and

eruption of painting. Shortly after finishing and publishing the first tarot the brush hit me with awe and I couldn’t

put it aside, oils and watercolors in themes that were held inside for so long exploded to new dimensions, before

only seeing the day of light, briefly and for my eyes only, in numerous sketchbooks, hidden in installations and

so on, now finally hit the surface. This path is but another manifestation or expression of an intuitive way of

operating in this world, welcoming these things to happen, and one that ultimately brought up a second new

edition of the tarot based on the images that bursted from the paper and canvas over these past few years.

VIDEO
Credits video Studio Traveling Light 

Concept Joris Van de Moortel 

Scenario Joris Van de Moortel & Timo Vergauwen 

Camera, sound, editing Timo Vergauwen 

Text & Music Joris Van de Moortel 

Recorded at Artist Studio, Hoboken june 18th 2026