Tarot MEM
2010
Mark E. Merrill
USA
Art Medium:
Collaged digitally modified photographs.
Description:
The designs bring together many disparate visual ideas which are fused together in computer collage. For example the use of the image of William Burroughs, the wealthy member of the Burroughs family, who was a friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and wrote many novels. On his card which is entitled 'L.O.D.' (the Land of the Dead), he is shown with the gun with which he accidentally shot his wife, the crab nebula nova remnant and thus a reference to one of his best known books Nova Express, and a centipede (perhaps a drug-induced paranoid image which rather obsessed him, being mentioned in a number of his novels, particularly the Soft Machine). Mark Merrill's collages are full of such visual references.
