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+O+ True Hudson/Holmes. TENDRIL may just require a different approach to using colour, either more sparingly, or just a light wash rather than full bright tints that plaster the entire page. Sometimes a little is better than more - and this may be one of those cases. Still - I'd like to experiment more and test the colours, easy to do since I'm not using the originals to paint with, because I think I'm quite good at colour. Hard to say whether my visions are black and white - I don't think so. its not that simple, the visuals may be toned but there is more than just the visuals that go into crafting these, there are feelings, forces, associations, and some of these are better represented through colours. I view each of these cards not as a drawing but a magical act, I am trying to condense and extract something that will change people's perceptions and each one is very draining.
There is an austerity about using black and white that matches the Sinister expectation, but these cards are not evil any more than they are good - so I'm not interested in matching expectation which is why it's such a difficult project because I can't simply draw Devils, gore, blood, sex and so on in traditional 'satanic' titillating veins because that only reinforces the category of "Satanism" in a stereotypical and ultimately harmful way, wherein I see it as capable of expressing so much more, even as a misinterpretation of something far more sublime beneath such simplistic categories when all it really boils down too is Christians demonizing other Christians. Because of its nature, I suspect full colour may detract from it but it is too early to decide either way - which is why I envision both. I have also considered, making them large [too large to shuffle by hand] for ideal meditation. This may then place them in a new category, outside of Tarot cards, but if the purpose is divination, to Know thyself, to Know the forces that govern superstition, belief, trust, love, fear, form and so on that rule us, complete us, control us - then there is no need to shuffle, only to meditate. For my Tradition, the Tarot cards are just the beginning, a kind of gateway vehicle for beginning greater more complex involved work on the Self which involves living those archetypes and transcending them to experience and explore New archetypes and occult states.
Holmes - yes. Tendril has a very specific purpose and is designed in accordance. So just 28. +O+
