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del.icio.usKris Waldherr illustrates tarot cards.
It’s no surprise, then, that the Ditmas Park-based artist has an obsession with ornate imagery and spooky fortunes. Both play major roles in her newest project, the Museum of Love, which is billed as “the most romantic place on the Web.”
Completely virtual, the Museum acts as a home to more than a few doomed couples of mythology and lore. It’s the one site on the Web that isn’t interested in the latest celebrity break-up. Dante and Beatrice are there, Tristan and Isolde, too.
Originally hatched as a way to expand upon her book, “The Lover’s Path,” the museum has taken on a life of its own and now features over 80 pieces of Waldherr’s original art, as well as a number of interactive features geared toward the amorous. Visitors can send love letters to their sweethearts or ask questions of the “Lover’s Oracle,” which is a bit like romantic three-card monte.
“I find that as you’re wandering around and getting lost [in the Museum], it’s sort of the way relationships are,” Waldherr told GO Brooklyn this week. “You don’t know where you’re going and you’re lost and seeing all these amazing places, but you don’t know what’s really going to happen until you get there.”
The Museum of Love is open all the time at www.museumoflove.org.
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