OnePotato
Shade said:Lovely deck, horrible name. I mean Bill's Tarot? Bill's Bait & Tackle I can understand but not Bill's Tarot.
Hello Shade.
This deck had no name when it was designed.
The little edition of 12 was intended to be a private one, for my friends, who already were familiar with it as a small stack of paintings that at that point had already sat for many years in an envelope in a drawer in my living room.
Comments like, "Bill, let's see your tarot" naturally lead to the name "Bill's Tarot" when it was time to design the box.
Being a simple lot, with no commercial ambition, so no need of a marketing machine, it slipped quietly into print, never expecting to be seen beyond a very tight circle. So now a few have gotten out for you to see, but the original context has been lost.
If I ever finish the minors, and produce a larger edition for public distribution, it will carry the name, "Le Tarot Tournant" among polite company.
But even that is just a title for the people who don't actually know me.
Anyway, that's the story for that...