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Recreating the Tarot in Haiti

The Haitian art collective Atis Rezistans and photographer Alice Smeets have created some amazing photographs recreating images from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. See them here, watch a video of members of Atis Rezistans talking about the project and read an interview with Smeets. “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ [sic] use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word Ghetto, thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

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