Sharmaine Foo
Arcane: Inner Architecture
About




This deck started as a way of paying attention, not to explain images, but to sit with them a little longer than usual.

      It brings together eight arcana, reinterpreted through fashion. Not as direct illustrations, but as compositions built from clothing, gesture, and form. Each card draws on familiar tarot structures, but shifts them into something more physical, using bodies, materials, textures, and poses that carry meaning without fully explaining it.

      The cards are made up of symbols and fragments collected over time. Some feel recognisable, others less so, and most do not settle into one fixed meaning. They shift depending on how you look at them, or when you return to them.

      There is no correct way to move through this. You can pick up any card, stop anywhere, or spend time on just one. Often it is not the whole image that stays, but a small detail, the way a garment falls, a hand position, a space, a tension you cannot fully place. That is enough to begin.

      Nothing here is meant to be resolved. The work sits somewhere between clarity and uncertainty, and it is okay to leave it there. These readings are not about prediction or answers, but about observation, noticing what feels familiar, what feels distant, and what resists definition.

      There are only eight, but they do not feel complete. Each card is a fragment, and what it becomes depends on how you spend time with it. What you notice will be different from someone else, and that difference is part of the reading.

      Take your time with it, or do not. Either way, the meaning is not fixed, it forms in the moment you spend with it.