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This adaptation of the tarot card 'The Lovers' was created for the Ostara Tarot show in Vancouver. As anyone who's viewed my gallery knows well, beautiful naked people is what I do. As always, however, I try and bring to my work something more than that, some emotion, some idea, some theme. With love, I wanted to work in that it can be more complicated than attraction and affection, it can be dangerous, it can destroy you. The piece is also reversible; the orientation here is arbitrary, as the roles, dominance and balance in relationships is by no means preordained. I want also to state that anyone of any gender or persuasion could just as easily be here in this image, but I made the choice of a man and a woman to try and represent and provide room for self insertion for as many human beings as might view this image.

Graphite and gold leaf on water-colour paper, some Photoshop retouching.

Description
This adaptation of the tarot card 'The Lovers' was created for the Ostara Tarot show in Vancouver. As anyone who's viewed my gallery knows well, beautiful naked people is what I do. As always, however, I try and bring to my work something more than that, some emotion, some idea, some theme. With love, I wanted to work in that it can be more complicated than attraction and affection, it can be dangerous, it can destroy you. The piece is also reversible; the orientation here is arbitrary, as the roles, dominance and balance in relationships is by no means preordained. I want also to state that anyone of any gender or persuasion could just as easily be here in this image, but I made the choice of a man and a woman to try and represent and provide room for self insertion for as many human beings as might view this image.

Graphite and gold leaf on water-colour paper, some Photoshop retouching.