HearthCricket
I have always had mixed feelings about this deck. Overall, I like it. I like the characters and their quirkiness. Some cards are absolutely gorgeous and the colours are rich and powerful. Patrick said this was his nightmare world. It isn't mine, though, and thus I cannot connect to it in that way. I am still trying to create my own world of who these beings are. The part that bothers me the most is the factories. I also live in New England and these images don't remind me at all of the factories in the mill towns around here. I do know a lot of horror stories of what went on inside, though. Abuse, children losing fingers and hands, workers dying from breathing in the fluff of the cotton mills. My grandmother worked in one for 6 months, became very ill and had to be shipped off to a farm to clear her lungs. Her sister also worked in one but died. But to me the drawings of the factories, with their chimneys, and the horror on some of the characters faces remind me more of crematoriums during the Holocaust. Not a good feeling in a deck, at all, and I doubt I will ever read with this deck for clients. But when you get to cards that are downright beautiful, just want to click with it, so badly. I plan to give it another go. For artwork and originality, I will always keep it. I need to see how it connects with me, this time around. It is on the list to start working with, anyhow, so time will tell. My world and life is not this dark, so to me it is very make-believe.
