We're back, baby. It's spring, I'm on anti-depressants, and we're gonna finish this monster. We've got one more suit of numbered cards, and then it's time to actually put shapes onto these things. Last up is the suit of swords.
This took like... an hour. This triptych came together super fast. It's exactly the kind of sketchy, out of focus background I was going for, it evokes the appropriate element, while still being recognizably a mountain with a field underneath.
Swords is the element of air. It's cerebral, it's balance, it's change. So it was important for me, and for the symbolism of this deck, to represent agriculture.
Tilled land is still nature. We have a bad habit, as humans, to treat the things we do outside of nature. To treat cities as something other than a human's created natural habitat. But that's not the case. Humans are mammals, and the soil we till is still natural soil, even if we are applying a human touch to it. It is no less natural than a beehive or an anthill. So the suit of swords brings man back into the conversation, with corn and pumpkin and wheat.