Art project | THE ONE WHO KNOWS

Background

During the winter of 2026, I spent a few weeks on the couch at home in Oslo, together with tarot. I had suffered a prolapse in my lower back and after working days I lay on the couch for the rest of the evening to get back into it. I quickly get tired of watching TV and can no longer bear to read books, but now I was lying and looking at the bookshelf on the wall in front of me, to see if there was a book I could perhaps persuade myself to compulsively read. Then I looked straight at a small deck of tarot cards that had been lying there since the pandemic. Like many others, I have been familiar with tarot since I was a child, but have never been interested enough in the tool to learn the system. I thought I could lay out some cards, but since I am not able to interpret the cards, I had to read my way to the meaning of each individual card. After a few evenings, I started to let Ai describe the meaning of the cards instead, and thus I simplified the process and saved time. Eventually I learned that Ai was creating its own tarot interpretations and imaginative narratives, so I had to learn how to talk to the tarot to avoid Ai interfering. Initially, I didn't have any specific questions about tarot, so I started aimlessly asking, "What is tarot?" and "How does this work?", without any goal or meaning. From there, something began to develop - quickly, and in a direction I had never imagined or could have foreseen.

Photo art: The Guardian - "The Moon".