It always seems so obvious in retrospect: artist Benjamin Mackey recently was inspired by a genius idead: to create a variant on the Rider Waite Tarot Deck, based on the cult television series created by David Lynch (which itself featured all manner of occult references: the Twin Peaks Tarot.
In the embedded podcast below, Mackey is asked whether he thinks the way in which many Twin Peaks characters seem to fit so well with the cards of the Tarot was by conscious design of David Lynch, or if it’s simply down to the archetypal nature of story characters:
I think there are certain characters that David Lynch was purposefully basing off Tarot archetypes. There’s one scene where Major Garland Briggs, he’s talking about his experiences in the White Lodge, and there’s a scene where he’s sitting on this stone throne and he’s surrounded by this lush greenery, and the pose he’s striking is almost exactly the pose that the hierophant strikes. Then there’s also a scene with Blackie at One-Eyed Jack’s, she’s at her table and she’s playing the Tarot Cards. And it’s a really small thing, you don’t see her doing it a lot and they don’t make a lot of direct references to it…but something like that, makes me think that maybe David Lynch has more of a conscious connection to the Tarot.
(via DisInfo and @MichaelMHughes)
