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Mary Greer gave a talk at Panthea (Pantheon) conference in San Jose in Feb 2002 on Waite's writings and work with the groups of Yeats, Francis Farr, Ellen Terry and Pamela Colman Smith (alias Pixie Smith)...she read excerpts and did say Waite's writing was very very dry and repetitious. He was someone who believed himself as a Christian mystic.
I'm hoping that I'm repeating the gist of this correctly, but it was fascinating to hear her read quotes from Waite on grail mythology that he summarized and then pop up a picture such as the Ace or Knight of Cups in the Giant Rider Waite...I told Mary Greer it was wonderful how her talk brought full circle to me connections in Rider Waite Smith designs to tales told by early Italian tarocchi poets such as Maria Matteo Boiardo.
Since then I've been busy looking at recolored Rider-Waite-Smith scans and thinking of Pamela Colman Smith as a set designer...for 78 scenes of human archetypes.
By the way, it was said although Pamela Colman Smith as an artist didn't always seem to participate in the rituals for the Golden Dawn group, she was very well known for being able to sketch and paint on paper what other people were thinking of exactly...and that her ability to paint to or be inspired by music was extrodinary.
If I find more about her posted as an artist, I'll try to post to this thread...
I'm hoping that I'm repeating the gist of this correctly, but it was fascinating to hear her read quotes from Waite on grail mythology that he summarized and then pop up a picture such as the Ace or Knight of Cups in the Giant Rider Waite...I told Mary Greer it was wonderful how her talk brought full circle to me connections in Rider Waite Smith designs to tales told by early Italian tarocchi poets such as Maria Matteo Boiardo.
Since then I've been busy looking at recolored Rider-Waite-Smith scans and thinking of Pamela Colman Smith as a set designer...for 78 scenes of human archetypes.
By the way, it was said although Pamela Colman Smith as an artist didn't always seem to participate in the rituals for the Golden Dawn group, she was very well known for being able to sketch and paint on paper what other people were thinking of exactly...and that her ability to paint to or be inspired by music was extrodinary.
If I find more about her posted as an artist, I'll try to post to this thread...