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Sarah René Kraft

@sarahrenekraft.bsky.social

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🜔 | Artist & Storyteller 🜍 | Creator of the #LemniscusTarot⁣ ☿ | Weaving mythology, archetypal symbolism, & mental-health musings⁣ ➳STUDIO 13 @ ARTHOUSE on R (Sac) ∞ https://bio.site/sarahrenekraft

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · Jan 24

🕯️Welcome! My name is Sarah René Kraft, a fantasy-surrealist artist & storyteller from California, using my mytho-spiritual “ribbon pieces”—drawn using only red and blue double-ended pencils—to weave both archetypal symbolism and mental health lessons I’ve learned on my own “underworld” journey.

“The Price of Breath” by Sarah René Kraft

Hypnos as XII. The Hanged Man from The Lemniscus Tarot by Sarah René Kraft

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 2d

Spending my afternoon break from working at home by harvesting rose thorns.

As you do.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 2d

DECOY NEST, drawn for a gallery exhibit while recovering from an emergency appendectomy I had during a random full moon, is about my conflicting relationships with acute social anxiety and masking.

#personalart #selfmythology

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 2d

Been talking a lot lately about autumn & the art of letting go, but a conversation with my partner got me thinking about trying to control outcomes in every aspect of desire, even our personal goals.

OUT OF MISERY is about what happens when we hang on too tightly.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 4d

💀🦂 Thanatos as the #DeathCard for the #LemniscusTarot lovingly welcomes you to Scorpio season! Ascending as a beacon for rebirth, he reminds you that as you shed your summer skin, shed with intention.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 5d

Gosh. Shimmery canvas prints in antique frames might be my new obsession

Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 5d

Working on getting back to my Underworld mythology/mental health tarot deck after years of burnout, starting with The Tower.

Got the writing and mock-up done, taped off the canvas, and now I’m blocking in the composition.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 5d

With poppies for deep sleep and lily of the valley signaling a “return to happiness,”UNRAVELING is about both the agony and ecstasy of opening up and becoming vulnerable so long after being hurt.

Realized recently my healing has not been about donning armor, but in reclaiming my softness.

Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you to all who popped in for our very first open house at #ArthouseStudio13!

Proud of us, @jeremyrathbone.bsky.social, my love.❤️ We worked SO hard these past couple weeks, you especially. And I can’t believe what we got done. A moscato toast well earned.🥂🍾

Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 17d

Every time I’ve made a new tarot card, my life and the world around me have embodied the energy of the card.

Been avoiding this one a long while now, but it’s time.

Eris calls. #TheTower

Text for The Tower card from the Lemniscus Tarot, written and drawn by Sarah René Kraft

Hesperid Nymph and Hesperian Dragon, Campanian red-figure amphora C5th B.C., British Museum - (image borrowed from Theoi.com)

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 18d

So am I. It’s literally one of my favorite shows. So many layers of symbolism and detail!

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 18d

✨YOU’RE INVITED!!!✨
This Second Saturday, 10/11, @jeremyrathbone.bsky.social and I welcome you to join us for the grand opening of the “NEW” Studio 13 @ Arthouse on R, 5-8 p.m.

Reposted by Sarah René Kraft

Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 18d

Psyche and Cerberus
by Edmund Dulac
#WyrdWednesday

Illustration depicting Psyche encountering Cerberus, the guardian of the underworld, a three headed dog with fiery eyes and snakes on his back. Psyche is clutching the honey cakes that she has brought to throw to Cerberus as a distraction.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 24d

🌔 This Saturday 10/4, find me and my tarot illustrations, mythic stories, and alchemical works @ the Mystique Market in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, going from 1-6pm.

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WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social · 24d

Passing a cemetery? Superstition states you should hold your breath in order to avoid the risk of breathing in the soul of someone recently departed. #FolkloreThursday

Black and white image showing a graveyard with grave markers in the shape of various styles of crosses. Trees hang down from above and the ground is overgrown with ferns and brambles.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 24d

Having to get mighty creative in order to find a way to hang art on this protected brick wall in this historic building. The wall @jeremyrathbone.bsky.social built for past shows and this arch I found on Marketplace look like they were made for each other! Added shelves & attaching the arch.

Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 24d

If you see this, QRT with a gif of your first anime.

Mine was Grimm’s Fairytale Classics on Nickelodeon!

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

I bet a laurel and hyacinth bouquet would be quite lovely and sad. In floriography: Artistic victory through grief.💐

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

Corvus and Smintheus

Corvus is where we get the genus for crows and was a familiar to Apollo. Smintheus became synonymous with “mouse” due to the epithet given to Apollo. And an art studio seems like a great place to appeal to the God of Art! ☀️

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

Introducing the new “Apollonian” mascots of @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social & @jeremyrathbone.bsky.social’s Studio 13 at ARTHOUSE on R —

✨🕯️Corvus & Smintheus 🕯️✨

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 25d

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween #31daysofhaunting

Vintage postcard, two black cats around a pumpkin cauldron, one cat is holding a mouse, one is wearing a witch’s hat, decoration of a border of pumpkins.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

A part of me wonders if Apollo Smintheus is perhaps the origin of the Pied Piper as an archetype, that of the mysterious musician that can control the mice and punishes the town if dues go unpaid.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

As the Willard of his time, Apollo’s role in sending or staving off plagues via rodentia seems to me connected to his fathering of Asclepius, God of Medicine. Farmers in particular took extra care to honor the god so as not to incur his wrath in the form of diseases or crop-destroying mice.

Bronze mice on the steps of the Temple of Apollo Smintheus

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

Because mice had a proclivity for discovering the best wild and farmed grain and food stores and leapt from sinking boats prior to sinking, they were associated with rituals of prophecy and thus sacred to Apollo.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

I was picking out a doorstop for the new studio and saw this mouse figurine. And because my decor all has intention, I looked up and learned that Apollo, Greek God of music, poetry, art, prophecy, and divination was knows as “Lord of Mice” in relation to his epithet Apollo Smintheus.

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Sarah René Kraft @sarahrenekraft.bsky.social · 25d

I hear “war torn Portland” and I keep imagining Portlanders taking to the streets, knitting needles in hand, boots to the ground, filling the roadways with rainbows of crocheted blockades, like an army of coffee-drinking orb weaver spiders.

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