Hero's Journey Part 2.
The Fool





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Canvas with swirling paint has a car with a muppet smiling in the back and a stone statue driving.
Hero's Journey Part 2.
The Fool
Mixed media on Canvas 9" x 9"
Emily Schleiner, 2021

As a young child I would go on long road trips with one or both of my parents because they lived in separate geographic locations, with one home in California and one in Washington state. The child-like, or playful Muppet part of me, is riding in the back of the car while my (literally stone-faced) parent drives down the road.

In this piece, a dinner plate with cutlery looms large, representing the normalcy of tension filled moments in Emily Schleiner's domesting growing up years. The statue is an ancient Assyrian stone carving.

A young blond man is in mid-stride walking off a cliff.
The Fool card from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck was created by A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith (also called the Rider-Waite tarot deck). It is now a part of the Public Domain.