let’s see what madame ruby sees . . .

Amateur Arcana is a 78 card tarot deck drawn on 5x7 pieces of mat board, based on the classic Rider-Waite deck. It is at present a wall installation at Invisible Gallery in Thomas, WV, but I am hoping to have real decks made in the not too distant future.

Tarot should be for everybody. A tool for personal growth, yes, but I would also submit that tarot doesn’t have to yield any particular result. I enjoy the tactile experience as much as any other aspect of it. I’ll pull a card just because I like shuffling and being rewarded with a pretty picture. We don’t have to constantly be pursuing personal growth and self-optimization! That’ll kill us, too!

I have zero visual art training, so my approach with these was to work fast and not look back. This yielded a variety of results, some more successful than others. Included here are just a few. Thanks for having a look at them!