comparativetarot: Justice. Art by Naomi Smithson, from The Leeds Tarot Card Project.&ldquo
comparativetarot: Justice. Art by Naomi Smithson, from The Leeds Tarot Card Project.“When I came to try drawing an image that represented justice, I felt like it would be a bit redundant in the world we presently live in. Injustice is systemic in the way society operates; there can be no justice in society when big business is pulling the government’s strings with the constant threat of capital strike. Additionally, in the UK, our ‘first past the post’ political system is fake democracy and our actual Head of State is unelected, with the only qualification required to do the job being the right heredity.Consequently, the illustration is more representative of the card’s reverse meaning; it depicts injustice, imbalance and unaccountability. Since we currently live in a time when people are pulling down statues that no longer hold any relevance to our society, I decided to depict a graffitied statue of Lady Justice being pulled down by business men, with her scales tipped disproportionately in favour of major multinational corporations. It was created using a brush, black Indian ink and a dash of watercolour.” -- source link