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\u2018Inner coherence is prior to artistic manifestation.\u2019 Wandering minstrels travelled through villages in the Middle Ages, telling stories with a book of archetypal images of the time in which they lived.<\/p>\n The pages came loose and they\/we continued telling the stories, with the leaves now shuffled. The sense of using these images to foretell the future arrived later.<\/p>\n Another story, a different one, says that it was invented by the Egyptians and that Hermes Trismegistus had something to do with it.<\/p>\n They were, and we are, \u2018The Fool\u2019, because we are all born innocent and impulsive, and in our journey that is our life, we become \u2018The World\u2019. \u2018The World\u2019 represents an ending to a cycle of life, a pause in life before the next big cycle which began with \u2018The Fool\u2019. The \u2018World\u2019 is an indicator of a major and inexorable change.<\/p>\n Yes, Tarot is the story of a trip, of a journey, a story that is retold over and over again and which we continue to tell. It speaks for itself, it speaks of others too. It is the story with stories inside itself.<\/p>\n The origin of Tarot, as those things that are always with us, remains mundane and mysterious at once. It continues, and resignifies itself without ever aging. Because of its particular and universal imaginary it continues to be a channel of our dreams and nightmares, desires and anxieties, like everything that has a living spirit in it.<\/p>\n Tarot reflects and narrates our selves, becoming true \u2018cultural memes\u2019 at the cost of being redundant. These are images that we transmit without even being aware of when they began.<\/p>\n We don’t have them in our DNA. We transmit them because we carry the idea with us, like the wheel, like a chair… things that were invented in different civilizations or in other times without having contact with each other.<\/p>\n My particular look, my particular antenna emitting information and my universal antenna that receives it, catalyse these images and unify them in this Tarot. A little new look with its own soul. Mixed.<\/p>\n Besides, memory edits and editing, as Pasolini has said, is poetry.<\/p>\n By constantly editing, our memory reinvents reality poetically. Our subjectivity tints our gaze and we build out of our dreams a concrete reality. That is the power of dreams. It is believed that because they are ungraspable, they are less real. But of course this is the trap, this is why they are so elusive sometimes. And of course that is why it is essential to know which base element feeds our dreams. The external reality is the dream constructed by others, when I (anyone) meets the other realities, generating new information. Art, Collage, Education: these things are a metaphor for what surrounds us; as Aristotle would say, \u2018we lie to tell the truth\u2019 by putting veils in art.<\/p>\n What does this mean? It means the obvious. It means that we generate images that anchor them in the deep meaning of what we want to say, but they are images, they are poetry, they are colour, they are metaphors, therefore they are \u201clies.\u201d But what they never are is dishonest… And as the inner coherence is prior to the artistic manifestation, we know that they are the result of an internal alchemy, their balance dynamic.<\/p>\n And then my memory appears… Tarot: body intuitions and a book of free pages. Always poetry in images.<\/p>\n This is my hybrid, my own beautiful monster and humble servant who collaborates with the other owner of a truth that may be clear or may be cryptic. It doesn\u2019t matter \u2026 it\u2019s a challenge!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Maria Julia Goyena<\/p>\n
\nMemory:\u00a0 a collage.
\nYou remember a smile, a look.
\nYou remember what clothes someone had on …
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\nYou remember what is not said.
\nTherefore, and because the editing is the poetry of the story, I compose and configure myself, because it is my memory that invents me.
\nThat’s what I’m actively living … my edition.
\nI am my sense.
\nI am my small and humble self and they are my worlds that I share.<\/em><\/p>\n