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‘These references are open to interpretation,’ explain the artists.

For them, the idea is to offer a journey through time in the form of a questioning of the evolution of humanity. That said, the meaning of the Tarot's major arcana is geared towards self-knowledge. It is a concrete and personalised aid that will speak to the person about themselves and their potential to evolve.

With this in mind, all the magic surrounding this fresco evokes a modern-day Memento Mori. This terrible sentence, ‘Remember death’, functions as a voice of conscience, establishing a dissociation between two dimensions of existence: that of the everyday world, the position in which we situate ourselves precisely in front of this representation, and that marked by the awareness of our finitude, of our death. Never before has this maxim resonated so strongly in our minds; more than ever, it reminds us of the fragile nature of life. This fresco is extremely impressive, spanning the entire façade of the house. Complex from an iconographic point of view, it is divided into two parts, one celestial dominated by Adam and Eve, the other reproducing emblematic figures from the Tarot cards framed by plant decoration. At the highest point of the fresco, we recognise ‘The Lovers’, symbolised by Adam and Eve. They are enthroned at the top of dials that we identify as a barometer, a clock and a compass, all three depicted very realistically, as allegories of the ‘Wheel of Fortune’. Around the edges of the dials, we see monkeys: a nod to Mons. In the lower alcoves, from left to right, we see: ‘The Emperor’, ‘Death’, ‘The World’ and ‘Temperance’.