Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s Cheese Grease Geomancy draws the divine from the disposable. Transforming used pizza boxes into recreations of tarot cards from the Rider Waite Smith deck, the artists ask: in a world defined by convenience and consumption, what tools might we now use to divine the future?
Historically, divination has relied on the everyday — tea leaves, animal entrails, birds in flight. In Cheese Grease Geomancy, the artists extend this lineage, proposing that oil stains and toppings from a late-night pizza may carry just as much meaning. With Japanese sampuru (fake food) and paint, they construct staged remnants of consumption, where the stains form constellations, and the cardboard becomes a site of prophecy.
In an era where fast food is sacred and confirmation bias reigns, these greasy sigils speak to how we seek meaning in the mess. Just as economists failed to predict the GFC, and military movements can allegedly be tracked through sudden spikes in pizza orders near the Pentagon (a phenomenon once known as "Pizzint" – Pizza Intelligence), Cheese Grease Geomancy explores how the signs we follow often tell us more about ourselves than the future.
Each work is $3,850. Unframed artworks will be framed and paired with a background colour of the buyer's choosing.