IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: Mentorship, learning from others, implementation & execution.
REVERSED: ‘Devil is in the details’, misalignment, working alone.
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“What we’re trying to do with these Earthships, is make a way for human life to live as intelligently as plant and animal life.”
-Micheal Reynolds
IN DEPTH:
The Three of Pentacles shows a young man working with his tools on a portion of a retaining wall made of tires. Each tire is being packed with earth and he marks the ones he has finished with a star, to mark his personal craftsmanship. He double checks his work with with a level. This is his first time building an Earthship—but he understands this structure to be the epitome of sustainable design and construction. If ‘climate justice’ was in charge of housing, this is what it would look like. The materials have been up-cycled, the plumbing is built for for onsite filtration and irrigation, self-cooling and warming, the home has built in composting and gardening systems. It is off-grid living made livable.
The Three of Pentacles shows a focused student who is meticulous in the art of building these self-sustaining homes. He believes in every aspect of his work. In the background his teachers discuss his work and his specific approach. One of the older (and cryptic) architects in the group of teachers states: “Yes, attention and belief can bring innovation, just as easily as it can bring blindness.”
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