DISCO INFERNO

^{“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to
avoid facing their own souls. One does not become
enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the
darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung

Disco Inferno is a series of digital artworks made for the
major arcana in a tarot deck. Loosely inspired by the game
Disco Elysium by ZA/UM, this series draws inspiration from
the works of artist Jenny Saville and borrows the structure of
chaos from Wassily Kadinsky. All the works in this series
were made digitally, but confined to being composed from
only two brushes and two shades of red as an exercise of
artistic constraint in the digital medium where choices of
brushes and colours are usually endless. Constraining the
digital tools that were used to make this series encapsulates
a sense of suppression of the inner psyche. The loose flow
of brushstrokes used contrasts this refusal to confront the
“shadow self” (Jung) as its darkness and light is released
into a chaotic mess. As tarot card decks are used as tools of
predictions of fate and personality, this art style underscores
the push and pull of holding on to order and understanding
of the psyche and amidst a conversely chaotic and
seemingly unredeemable world.}

^{Artist’s note: Some cards are numbered wrongly above. Below is the updated and amended digital artwork, because evidently my dyscalculia extends into being unable to accurately perceive Roman numerals, which equals pretty small-brain energy.}

FULL DIGITAL ARTWORKS