Alexandria Riesberg

The Fool’s Journey

Brooklyn-based Alexandria Riesberg’s collaged and photographic portraits engage with spirituality and identity, uncovering the playful magic that shapes her. She received the Parsons Dean’s portfolio grant from 2017-21.

The Fool’s Journey illuminates my journey inward through the archetypal imagery of tarot cards. The Fool embarks into an uncharted adulthood with no clothes — only roller blades, encountering crashes, gifts, and philosophical acquisitions from the characters of the tarot’s major arcana along the way. Combining fantastical sets and dress-up costumes with cluttered rooms peeking behind pinned up background sheets, the work reveals magic in the act of play: something that is available in everyday life — around the corner, or with the right lens — to whomever is willing to seek it.

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