[-empyre-] Tarot thoughts

Chrysanne S chrysannex at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 02:13:04 AEDT 2021


*Dear All – *



It has been an interesting process reading everyone’s experiences with the
tarot, so I thought to share my experiences.  I studied with the psychic
Frank Andrews in New York city in the mid 1980’s Frank read for people
famous and not so from his home in Little Italy- NYC.  He is almost 80 now-
I still have the same Marseille deck which I use – but now it is almost 40
years old, and very fragile.  In the early 1990’s I created a work during
the height of the AIDS crisis , 1-900 Mirror Mirror – I include here a
recent text for it – as last spring during another pandemic - 1-900 Mirror
Mirror was presented in the exhibition "There are more than four " curated
by Jacob Korczinski at Cooper Cole Gallery. I encourage everyone to look at
Robert Flack's work - Paul Petro represents the estate. Also there is an
interview in Canadian Art for anyone who is interested -
https://canadianart.ca/interviews/chrysanne-stathacos-mirrors-mandalas/


Below is the text I wrote for the exhibition,


best wishes to all , Chrysanne


*"I  first presented the work in 1993 at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, at
the height of the AIDS pandemic.
I remember oceans of tears merged with snowstorms as
I traveled between New York City and Toronto. Our friends and partners
were dying. 1-900-Mirror Mirror confronted
viewers with their own image in my infinity chamber, connecting me with the
viewer by video phone as I sat in my Little Italy apartment with my tarot
cards. What would they ask?  What would I answer as I picked a card? I
hoped to create a transformative experience, hope and healing unfolding
within the never-ending vision of one’s self, seen through my hand-printed
roses, ivy, and hair. Now, during another pandemic, the work will again be
interactive, but online.*



*Robert Flack and I used to read tarot together often back then, doing
rituals with oils, candles, sage and secret objects on an Indian bed spread
on the roof of my New York studio on Centre Street.  I have found a copy of
the deck he used – The Tantric Dakini Oracle – which I will use now,
thinking of him. *



*Robert Flack died in October, 1993, a few months before the opening
of 1-900-Mirror Mirror.  Jorge Zontal of General Idea left us a
few weeks after the project ended.    The sadness and tragedy of that time
is still with me/us. Why were our governments and leaders not more
proactive in the early 1980's, when AIDS first appeared? So many could have
been saved.  WHY remains the question.  Robert Flack, Tim Jocelyn, Jorge
Zontal, Felix Partz, David Buchan and so so so many more should still be
with us, that is the tragedy that will never die"*




Chrysanne Stathacos
chrysannex at gmail.com

chrysanne.ca
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