Our community themed its end of summer “Arcana” art show on the Tarot card deck, a psychic compendium of life issues and spiritual lessons referenced by fortune tellers. Early last April, artists who dared to enter the contest were required to blindly draw a card from the mystical Tarot deck and then craft a work fashioned on the symbolism and message of that card. The BRC founder researched all 78 cards in the deck and decided to risk a leap into the field of contestants. He drew the “Hanged Man.” Not a death card, the hanged man is suspended upside-down by the ankle, so his bad habits and ill behaviors will fall away from him.
The subsequently constructed BRC banjo sported a peg head that features an inverted mother of pearl faun, a half-human mythical creature that is sympathetic to people but devious.
The fretboard displays doves fluttering away- like ill begotten misdeeds. The 5th fret space bears the Chinese character of Wisdom, and the 12th fret space contains the character for Peace.
In recent years, each BRC 5-stringer typically bear a signature mother of pearl inlay on the heel of the neck for the eyes-only of the musician. At this prescribed site, the “Tarotology of the Hanged Man” banjo presents a `Peace Dove` image in the hopes that mankind will someday learn to shed its selfish and hurtful behaviors.
So, what’s in the cards for you?
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