Tarot Orat
This deck will focus on the wide world beneath our feet and above our heads: the world of insects, spiders, worms, centipedes, sowbugs - the tiny creatures that shape the course of nature just as much as humans. They transform their environment, live in complex societies, undergo stunning transformations. They fly, swim, burrow, leap, and run. They can be strikingly beautiful, or hideously ugly. They can seem strange, utterly foreign, but they dwell alongside us - even closer to us than our neighbors and families. They could live without us, but we couldn't live without them.
I'm not sure if I'm going to draw the cards, or use photos with digital manipulation. I'm not bad with Prismacolor pencils (my current avatar, the lady beetle, is one of my own drawings), but I have yet to draw an entire card to my satisfaction.
The first card that came into my head - the one that demanded that I create this deck - is the Hanged Man. My concept is the beautiful, gold and green chrysalis of a monarch butterfly, suspended between two stages of its active life, transforming from crawling caterpillar to lofty winged spirit. (In ancient Greek, "psyche" is the word for both "butterfly" and "soul.")
Since that's the card that started the deck in my head, it's the first one I've started to create. The first version is attached here - no number or title yet, and I have to change what the chrysalis is hanging from, but this is the idea.
I'm not sure if I'm going to draw the cards, or use photos with digital manipulation. I'm not bad with Prismacolor pencils (my current avatar, the lady beetle, is one of my own drawings), but I have yet to draw an entire card to my satisfaction.
The first card that came into my head - the one that demanded that I create this deck - is the Hanged Man. My concept is the beautiful, gold and green chrysalis of a monarch butterfly, suspended between two stages of its active life, transforming from crawling caterpillar to lofty winged spirit. (In ancient Greek, "psyche" is the word for both "butterfly" and "soul.")
Since that's the card that started the deck in my head, it's the first one I've started to create. The first version is attached here - no number or title yet, and I have to change what the chrysalis is hanging from, but this is the idea.
I don't know if I'll be eagerly awaiting, since I'm fairly bug-phobic...but I do really like your idea for the Hanged Man...