‘Why are you doing this?’

‘Doing what?’

‘This… this Tarot thing… What does it do?’

‘THIS makes you think. That’s what it does.’

‘?’

‘Just as Danish literature makes you think, so does this visual text makes me think. And just in case you also want to know whether there’s a difference between ‘this’ and a painting by Chagall, there isn’t.’

This is me talking to a Danish literature professor, who was quizzing me about my work with the cards, while adopting a slightly irritated tone of exasperation, as if wanting to say, ‘you and your cards and your rituals…’

I was in a hurry to hit the cemetery to shoot the rising moon.

There’s insistence.

‘Why are you doing this chasing after the moon? What does it do for you?’

‘Nothing. It does nothing for me. A rising full moon is just the most beautiful thing I can think…