ALL FAME NO FORTUNE depicts quotidian scenes of young artists in “Knew York” blurred through colorful, watery, dreamlike, layered oil pastels, oil stick, colored pencil and watercolor on paper. This work experiments with Mira Mariah’s signature use of the line, layered with distorted renderings of seminal patterns and shapes seen throughout Mariah’s body of work. Blurry realities run through a technicolor watery fantasy, warping perspective into colorful and abstract dimensions. 

The artworks transpose scenes inspired by the Girls of Knew York onto cards of the lured Rider-Smith Tarot Decks. The work draws connections between the practice of tarot and the way artists connect themselves to dream and purpose. 

“Artists hunt for inspiration through preexisting materials, objects, and space that has been waiting for them all along. Tarot asks a subject to hunt something that’s inside themselves, examining inner feelings by letting the imagery relate to individual and collective reality. The work arrives at the intersections of the inner and outer world, exploring what is tangible; what is imagined; what is possible; what is fantasy.”