{"product_id":"eight-of-swords-i","title":"Eight of Swords I","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"x9f619 xjbqb8w x78zum5 x168nmei x13lgxp2 x5pf9jr xo71vjh x1xmf6yo x12nagc x1n2onr6 x1plvlek xryxfnj x1c4vz4f x2lah0s xdt5ytf xqjyukv x1qjc9v5 x1oa3qoh x1nhvcw1\" style=\"border-radius: 0px; flex-grow: 0; position: relative; place-content: stretch flex-start; align-self: auto; align-items: stretch; flex-shrink: 0; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: column; background-color: #ffffff; margin-bottom: 4px; overflow: visible; margin-top: 8px; color: #000000; font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"_a9zs\" style=\"display: inline; color: #000000; font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\r\n\u003ch1 class=\"_ap3a _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(var(--ig-primary-text)); font-size: var(--system-14-font-size); font-weight: var(--font-weight-system-regular); margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; font-family: var(--font-family-system); line-height: var(--system-14-line-height); display: inline !important;\"\u003eEight of Swords I, painted in 2022 with a 2024 addition, inspired by a journal exercise and tarot card that's about evaluating our own mindsets and self-limiting beliefs. Often, the only real expectations of us are the ones we place on ourselves. Our anxiety is self-perpetuating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Eight of Swords shows a woman bound and blindfolded. Eight swords surround her, seemingly trapping her in place, a symbol of the limiting thoughts, beliefs and mindset that prevent her from moving forward in her life. However, look closer: if the woman removed her blindfold, she would quickly realise that she can escape...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSymbolically removing the blindfold, she chooses to step out of the confines she has constructed for herself, moving from the dark into the light. Choosing to move from a place of illusion into disillusionment - in the positive sense. Why would we want to live in an illusion?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt may feel safer and more comfortable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's not easy to free our own minds from our self-imposed big brother mindsets; the controls we place on ourselves are often for self-preservation. And getting out of our own heads and trusting more in our guts and intuition can be scary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truth is, our guts are our more ancient and evolved instincts. Reason and rationality, the thinking, logical mind, came much later. Knowledge is older than that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe just sometimes forget that we are more free than we think we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainting is my favourite reminder of that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/eightofswords\/\"\u003e#eightofswords\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/viiiofswords\/\"\u003e#viiiofswords\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/tarot\/\"\u003e#tarot\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/expressionism\/\"\u003e#expressionism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/portraiture\/\"\u003e#portraiture\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/acryliconcanvas\/\"\u003e#acryliconcanvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/painting\/\"\u003e#painting\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/freedom\/\"\u003e#freedom\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/southafricanart\/\"\u003e#southafricanart\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/southafricanartist\/\"\u003e#southafricanartist #selfportrait\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEssentially a self-portrait the woman represents the psyche, holding the red ribbon blindfold as if a sword, empowered in her truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePainting is expressionist with a tarot style ink \u0026amp; acrylic illustration fixed onto the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Local Vendor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47742508859613,"sku":"sarah-jayne-fell_eight-of-swords-i","price":19320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7261\/1293\/files\/eight-of-swords-ii_add-on_2024_1_66e1bb44-4fa0-4cf9-88ab-f114ce93f832.jpg?v=1775566144","url":"https:\/\/latitudes.online\/products\/eight-of-swords-i","provider":"Latitudes Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}