firemaiden
HI! I got the new D?rer (lo Scarabeo 78 card, colored version -- Gaudenzi) along with my Fey deck. I haven't seen anyone screaming up and down and going bananas over this deck, as we have over the Fey, but I quite like it.
I love the use of animals in the suits, especially the doves for cups , and I like how the animals/suits coordinate into a possible story: e.g.
in the 2 of swords; a wary fox is sneaking a peek over a wicker wall to espy a suspicious hen and her recently laid egg --> in the 3 of swords, the same fox, evading a man in mourning, has an expression of fear and horror as he sees three swords staked in the ground before him. Red berries shine like blood in the grass. The 7 of swords is an all out fox hunt, the sky is the orange of war. And in the 8 of swords, the fox has been killed- pierced through with the 8 swords.
Some cool cards:
The Queen of Pentacles looks like she was in the midst of a bawdy encounter, which was interrupted to paint the card.
the 4 of pentacles: a man climbing up a crest comes upon an eagles nest with four coins instead of eggs.
8 of cups: a dove shivering in a downpour over a rising stream, where a party of cups is being upset and washed away downstream.
I don't get that the writer of the LBW necessarily saw the cards. I found terribly jarring to see the graphic 10 of Swords picture (a dead man lying face-up, transperced in five bleeding places by 5 swords, and hemmed in on all sides by the remaining 5) and then to read the all light and chuckes interpretation in the LWB. "Upper hand over every obstacle, improved life, positive forces and vibrations" .
It seems that the writer of the LWB was not on speaking terms with the artist.
I love the use of animals in the suits, especially the doves for cups , and I like how the animals/suits coordinate into a possible story: e.g.
in the 2 of swords; a wary fox is sneaking a peek over a wicker wall to espy a suspicious hen and her recently laid egg --> in the 3 of swords, the same fox, evading a man in mourning, has an expression of fear and horror as he sees three swords staked in the ground before him. Red berries shine like blood in the grass. The 7 of swords is an all out fox hunt, the sky is the orange of war. And in the 8 of swords, the fox has been killed- pierced through with the 8 swords.
Some cool cards:
The Queen of Pentacles looks like she was in the midst of a bawdy encounter, which was interrupted to paint the card.
the 4 of pentacles: a man climbing up a crest comes upon an eagles nest with four coins instead of eggs.
8 of cups: a dove shivering in a downpour over a rising stream, where a party of cups is being upset and washed away downstream.
I don't get that the writer of the LBW necessarily saw the cards. I found terribly jarring to see the graphic 10 of Swords picture (a dead man lying face-up, transperced in five bleeding places by 5 swords, and hemmed in on all sides by the remaining 5) and then to read the all light and chuckes interpretation in the LWB. "Upper hand over every obstacle, improved life, positive forces and vibrations" .
It seems that the writer of the LWB was not on speaking terms with the artist.
