Andrew Shillam - Still Life with Tarot Card

Still Life with Tarot Card
Acrylic on paper
40.5cm x 30.5cm
Ref. 53859

Andrew Shillam's "Still Life with Tarot Card" employs geometric abstraction to deconstruct domestic space and tarot symbolism on acrylic paper. The composition fragments "La Foudre" (The Lightning) and surrounding objects into angular planes and intersecting forms, dissolving the boundary between representation and pure abstraction. Shillam's geometric vocabulary transforms the card's disruptive energy into crystalline structures, suggesting that chaos and order are merely different expressions of the same underlying systems. Domestic elements become architectural components within a rigorously composed visual field. This approach elevates the still life into an investigation of how meaning emerges through formal relationships rather than narrative content, merging symbolism with modernist abstraction.