Andrey Moss

My seventh collection was my first project that contained such a large number of characters, events and places. This is not a cosplay or a film adaptation (although during my work I always imagine myself as a costume designer in a movie), but my personal reflection on the historical events of the late eighteenth century, expressed in three pairs of shoes. And for the first time, not only the source of my inspiration, but also the center of my creative thought was a building, or rather, a medieval castle called 

"My art is not a form of protest against the real world. Rather, a celebration of the richness which exists just below the surface of our imagination and view on the world in which we live." - Nona Limmen

The Latin motto "Trahor Fatis" (I am drawn by Fate) appears but four times in the Tarot masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, the Sola Busca deck, and yet it hangs unmistakably over the cards’ entire colorful procession of ancient Greek and Roman heroes. Armored in the style of late-fifteenth century northern Italy, they bear bagpipes, shields, lyres, pennants, staffs, and torches, while accompanied by basilisks, crows, falcons, doves, and eagles. Every single card is a miniature drama - the expressions of the highly individualized figures inviting us to speculate, like the Tarot itself, on the past and future of this cryptic world.