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Hello, you’ve found my website.

My name is Tabatha. What’s yours?

I am a multidisciplinary artist in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The body I live in is mixed-white, with roots reaching into Spain, indigenous Mexico, Norway, Germany, Indonesia. My practices aren’t limited by medium, or subject, but rather are in devotion to love and surrender to the whole/hole. Ideas usually surface in my sleep; I work on them in my sleep and then bring them into a more tangible form when I’m awake.

In the studio, you’ll find painting series, works-in-progress, music, and so forth, going back twenty years. In the shop, you’ll find available original paintings and original artworks from my e-mail project.

If you work with the fully illustrated tarot (based off the Rider Waite Smith Deck) and have felt weird pulling some of the cards, especially the swords cards, have felt like the deck creates anxiety, I’m right there with you. I am a practitioner of the Marseille tarot. My work is to help people transition to learning basics of numerology and elements to work with the symbols of the Marseille tarot.

I am writing a book, Fever Dream Tarot—Develop Your Practice Through Altered States of Consciousness. I am also illustrating a Marseille-based deck. While I am writing this book, I am also creating supportive material for shifting from working with the Rider Waite-Smith deck to the Marseille tarot. I’m working on both a podcast mini-series and a guide, called Pull the Swords out of your Back. While I put together these materials, you are always welcome to ask me anything or receive tarot readings.

As an independent artist, I self-publish and self-represent. If you’d like to collaborate, send me an e-mail at t@tabathahansen.com.

To stay in touch with my work, subscribe to receive monthly letters and art in your e-mail, or become a pen pal patron and receive the letters and art in your snail mailbox.

Take care,

Tabatha

humans have said of my work:

"I love. . .the playful color, the openness, the nothingness, the beauty in the chaos, the strange paths and the what-ifs. The sense of going somewhere—don’t ask too many questions; you’ll see when we get there. And the overall sense of becoming. And then there’s the wonderfully weird shapes that make me want to contort into a good stretch." —C

“. . .there seems to be little concern for the outside world. You’re focused on the detail, the absurd of whatever you’re doing and nothing gets in the way of that.” —S

“. . .your paintings and drawings have an unusually sophisticated and refined sense of things, of your life, of this world, and you express it with self-made shapes and a reverence for open space and potent silence. Off-kilter composition, nested and hanging here and there.” —E

“Your art is like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, where there are deceptively simple motifs with meaning and emotion pulsed into them by dynamic and textural changes over time (over the course of one brush stroke or crayon line). This is intriguing to me because it asks me to pay attention, to take a moment and look, think, find the story.” —R

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