The Reading
The Reading — a sacred rite captured in pigment and symbol, where fate is fanned out like a hand of cards and destiny flickers in candlelight. In this mystical tableau from your Norse-inspired series, divination takes center stage—not as a performance, but as a communion with the hidden forces that guide all realms.
The scene is quiet, but charged. A crystal sphere, held aloft by golden serpent-like forms, anchors the upper space—like a seeing eye suspended in stillness, inviting the gaze inward and beyond. Below it, a single red candle, partially melted, flickers with both warmth and warning. Its flame dances over a spread of cards—each one a portal.
Here is Death, cloaked and faceless, reminding us not of endings, but of inevitable transformation.
Here is the Fiery Sword, a flash of divine will or conflict to come.
A sunburst, a feline mask, and blooming sunflowers appear on others—totems of mystery, joy, trickery, life.
The curved green table is like a rune-circle, enclosing this private moment between the mundane and the mythic. There are no hands in the frame, but you feel the presence of the seer, the völva, or even the viewer—called to interpret what has been drawn.
Each card is a whisper from another realm.
Each flame-flicker, a signal from beyond the veil.
This is prophecy. This is memory.
This is the art of seeing.
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 15 X 20
The Reading — a sacred rite captured in pigment and symbol, where fate is fanned out like a hand of cards and destiny flickers in candlelight. In this mystical tableau from your Norse-inspired series, divination takes center stage—not as a performance, but as a communion with the hidden forces that guide all realms.
The scene is quiet, but charged. A crystal sphere, held aloft by golden serpent-like forms, anchors the upper space—like a seeing eye suspended in stillness, inviting the gaze inward and beyond. Below it, a single red candle, partially melted, flickers with both warmth and warning. Its flame dances over a spread of cards—each one a portal.
Here is Death, cloaked and faceless, reminding us not of endings, but of inevitable transformation.
Here is the Fiery Sword, a flash of divine will or conflict to come.
A sunburst, a feline mask, and blooming sunflowers appear on others—totems of mystery, joy, trickery, life.
The curved green table is like a rune-circle, enclosing this private moment between the mundane and the mythic. There are no hands in the frame, but you feel the presence of the seer, the völva, or even the viewer—called to interpret what has been drawn.
Each card is a whisper from another realm.
Each flame-flicker, a signal from beyond the veil.
This is prophecy. This is memory.
This is the art of seeing.
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 15 X 20
The Reading — a sacred rite captured in pigment and symbol, where fate is fanned out like a hand of cards and destiny flickers in candlelight. In this mystical tableau from your Norse-inspired series, divination takes center stage—not as a performance, but as a communion with the hidden forces that guide all realms.
The scene is quiet, but charged. A crystal sphere, held aloft by golden serpent-like forms, anchors the upper space—like a seeing eye suspended in stillness, inviting the gaze inward and beyond. Below it, a single red candle, partially melted, flickers with both warmth and warning. Its flame dances over a spread of cards—each one a portal.
Here is Death, cloaked and faceless, reminding us not of endings, but of inevitable transformation.
Here is the Fiery Sword, a flash of divine will or conflict to come.
A sunburst, a feline mask, and blooming sunflowers appear on others—totems of mystery, joy, trickery, life.
The curved green table is like a rune-circle, enclosing this private moment between the mundane and the mythic. There are no hands in the frame, but you feel the presence of the seer, the völva, or even the viewer—called to interpret what has been drawn.
Each card is a whisper from another realm.
Each flame-flicker, a signal from beyond the veil.
This is prophecy. This is memory.
This is the art of seeing.
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 15 X 20