Linda Benjamin

An interdisciplinary artist, writer, and wanderer, Linda was born and educated at Columbia in Chicago. IL, and has lived across the country from New York City to California and currently resides in Austin, TX.

Born out of early 2020 madness, Linda created Interim Tarot at a chaotic point in time. It was another disruption 4 years prior in 2016, the sudden loss of her father, which led her to the practice of Tarot in the first place. She says

“Ritual places a body into the space it inhabits, and in doing so, helped me move ever so slightly through grief.”

Prior to the 2020 lockdown, Linda enjoyed over a decade career as a massage therapist, a stable compliment to an art practice. The Interim deck is influenced by her experience in bodywork, reiki, and the intelligence of the somatic body, five element theory of the Dao, and acupuncture meridians intersections into connective tissue.

In addition to themes of embodiment, Linda blends interpretations from folklore, fairytales, mythology, animal medicine, and contemporary literature and culture, as well as a dedication to interstitial and intersectional spaces.

The first edition of Interim Tarot was crowd funded in large by Kickstarter in July of 2020, and was released for sale in December 2020, less than a year from the very first sketch.

Currently Linda is compiling an extended full size companion guidebook of the High Arcana as illuminated Manuscript to be released at the end of 2021.

Before stumbling into a her current career as a tarot illustrator, Linda made non-representational tactile paintings and sculptures, often transparent, in acrylic, oil, latex, and plastic, and dreams about making giant paintings and objects again.

interimtarot@gmail.com
@interimtarot