The Eye Card
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Adapted to an Oracle Card
Date: c.2022
Project/Body of Work: Mayura Oracle Deck
An isolated gaze suspended within a contained field of light and color. A single eye emerges from a full-spectrum watercolor field. Color radiates outward in layered blooms while the eye remains sharply defined, steady and direct.
Foundational within the Mayura Oracle system, this card often operates as a shorthand for the deck’s core inquiry: how images and awareness shape one another through relationship.
Process Notes:
The original watercolor began as an intuitive experiment in color and material without a defined destination. At the time of its making, it carried no formal role. When the Mayura Oracle deck was conceived, earlier sketchbooks and works were revisited. This image was intentionally placed into the deck, and that act of placement shifted its function and presence. What had been a standalone study became part of the living symbolic system.
Within the deck, the card gradually accumulated meaning through use. It is often drawn or chosen in moments when perception feels reciprocal, when the act of looking outward (into the infinite, into space, in the abyss) seems to encounter something that looks back. Not a literal gaze, but the subtle recognition that awareness itself is relational.
The full-spectrum palette quietly echoes a recurring rainbow motif within the broader Mayura body of work and across my personal dreamscape as well. In alchemical tradition, the appearance of the complete spectrum signals integration and serves as a bridge between material and spiritual states, among other more specific roles. Here, that spectrum surfaces as a continuation of threads that are woven throughout my visual work, across roughly 20 years.
As a physical card, the image feels more like a presence. It functions as a point of encounter within the deck, an image that not only looks back at the viewer, but one that represents the mirror-relationship that exists implicitly as a result of the deck itself.
Original Watercolor:
Continued Reading:
See Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Anonymous, Valentin Tomberg). Letter I: The Magician. Find references and links to this work and other texts foundational to Mayura in “From the Archive.”
