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Moscow Sheharezada's Tarot or a Guestworker's Journey      2012 Allamova Muslima      Russia                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings with watercolour. Description: Painted in a naive style by one of Moscow's best known Tarot readers 'Moscow Sheharezada'. It appears that she may be an immigrant to Russia, and the majors depict the journey of a guestworker or immigrant from some primarily Muslim country shown in the Fool through to the Lovers, then travelling to Moscow by train, finding work on a building site, living in a tin shack - the Chariot through to the Hanged Man. He then meets a woman and begins to settle down into a better domestic situation, in Death and Temperance. Then there is some problem over money and he is arrested, put into jail, a sequence shown in the Devil through to the Moon. After his release from jail, he buys a ticket and flies back, presumably, to his native country, depicted in the Sun to the World. The Minors stick very close to the Rider Waite emblematic sequence, though depicted though events in the life history of this guestworker.