Tarot Azul (Blue Tarot) Making of Video
I began experimenting with the shapes of Jodorowsky Camoin's Tarot line in cyanotype to achieve a softer, blue/sky-blue line, which I then painted with watercolors. The result didn't interest me because they resembled some contemporary Tarocchi di Bologna decks. It was then that I decided that the only color would be the variable blue of the cyanotype and printed some negatives so that the line would be white (the only point preserved from the sun upon exposure). Since cyanotype is an unstable technique, the shades of blue would continue to vary over time. The front and back of each card were copied by hand, with varying amounts of emulsion and sun exposure times; for this reason, each of the 22 major arcana in each deck is unique. Video music by Oliverio Duhalde
