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Two Of Wands (Facing) and its companion, Two Of Wands (Future) are based on the Tarot card, 2 of Wands. In Tarot, this card card typically features a person looking out over a landscape, contemplating future choices or opportunities. It’s about surveying possibilities and weighing potential paths forward; dreaming into the future and making plans. “Wands” are a tarot suit based in action and energy, aspects that the artist intentionally emphasizes – that planning into the future lays the groundwork for acting with intention.
Fake began working on the prints during the run-up to the 2024 U.S. election, which portended (and subsequently resulted in) a massive cultural wave of transphobia. The meaning of the 2 of Wands, that regardless of a present situation, there is the space to see a way forward, came into focus through the creation of these prints.
The Two Of Wands Tarot card portrays two wands. In the prints Edie Fake chose to split the dyad into a pair of prints, and gave each a distinct, key trait: one wand is “Facing” – confronting history and the present, observing how the current moment is shaped; the other wand is “Future” – looking toward what is needed and wanted, and ascertaining how to get there
In Two Of Wands (Facing), the wand is topped by a large box, a housing for history; candles for memory, a keyhole for doorways that have already been chosen. The wand in Two Of Wands (Future) consists of unformed potential, and therefore embodies less symbolic meaning. As a set, the two prints can be displayed either as “Facing-Future” or “Future-Facing” but each can also exist as a singular work.
