I hope this deck was the first of many. I love them. Each card came in a different hue spanning the spectrum. In this series of forty cards, I have carved non-objective patterns inspired by color and suit. The patterns feel nearly recognizable, familiar and alien, sometimes totemic and biomorphic. While the pieces are all abstract and heavily variegated, in small groupings, glyphic relationships emerge. The relationships are fluid, allowing stories to be generated and regenerated by a slight adjustment of placement.
In carving these cards, I was met by a challenging thinness. The flaying process, slow and delicate, was exaggerated by the lack of layers and pulp. Where I had become accustomed to peeling a 1/16" in the book carvings and the album sleeve carvings, the playing cards limited the peel to 1/32". To have carved any deeper would expose the reverse side or even gouge entirely through.