olivia1 said:
Thanks for sharing, Karen0205. I look forward to seeing the sketches and learning more about this deck and its concept. Will it be as complex as the Fairytale Tarot but based on Alice and Wonderland? Will it have the card stock of the Bohemian Gothic (which I have heard so many great things about)? That kind of thing.
It's really too early to say anything about cardstock or any physical details like that. We'll let you know as and when these details emerge - but that may be months off I'm afraid. We
have discussed book and box though - and decided that we need a full companion book for this one as there is a lot to say and also a lot to show.
One of our issues with an Alice tarot was actually
not making it too complex. I did discuss the idea with a writer here on AT some years back (three maybe?) and at the time I thought it couldn't be done because reading with it would require too much detailed knowledge of the books - which in fact many people don't have.
We now think we've found a way of making it work without reference to the more obscure details of the stories - but this means that the RWS structure will be very, very loose. I mean, the Three of Swords won't be a happy card, and the Nine of Cups won't be a sad one, so it will be easy to read as a straight RWS if that's what people want to do. But basically, the need for the deck to be true to Alice will take precidence over the need for it to be true to RWS.
That's what I had to "crack" before it all fell into place. And somehow I couldn't see it until very recently. Then it was extraordinary - I just wrote down about fifty cards in an afternoon and it all seemed quite obvious. The only thing now, cough, is to actually produce the images.
YAY!!!!! 