Final Project: Masks Behind Masks

These are a set of digitally manipulated photographs set to the theme of the major arcane from a set of tarot cards.  It follows three different influences, Jungian psychology’s collective conciseness and the theme from Shin Megami Tensai: Persona 3 and Persona 4, and concepts from a deck of tarot cards.  The centerpiece, The Fool, is represented by me because the Fool is usually associated with a person on a journey and faces a challenge.  The Persona series also mentions that 0 is empty, yet full of infinite opportunities.  So I followed the concept that people, represented by the other arcane, help influence how you act and what persona or mask you use.  On another note I put a mask behind the persona covering up a black hole.  So my purpose was to make people think about their true self and contemplate who that is exactly. All in all, I wanted to create a serious, yet whimsical piece as shown by the centerpiece surrounded by the other arcane with less serious imagery.

0:    The Fool

1:    The Magician

2:    The High Priestess

3:    The Empress

4:    The Emperor

5:    The Hierophant

6:    The Lovers

7:    The Chariot

8:    Strength

9 :   The Hermit
10:  Wheel of Fortune
11:   Justice
12:   The Hanged Man
13:   Death
14:   Temperance
15:   The Devil

16:   The Tower

17:   The Star
18:   The Moon
19:   The Sun
20:   Judgement
21:   The World