Nice line drawing
but I'm not sure how the images are supposed to inspire the meanings of the cards unless one creates new meanings or learns the traditional meanings and applies them to these cards. For instance - the Devil. What are you trying to show about the devil? Nothing emerges from intuition for me. Likewise Moon that traditionally has a most interesting path. This one, unless I'm mistaken in which case please put me right, doesn't relate to the Tarot Moon at all.
However, many posters like them so they definitely chime with some.
You raise a very important question - this deck does need some background knowledge to work with it, and I am currently writing a companion with it as well (I'm planning to add as much information as I can to the complimentary LWB, instead of a separate book).
You would have to know the "story" of the deck, and why things look the way that they do. Despite that, you should still be able to grasp a few main ideas. The Devil, e.g, is kind of like a puppeteer (with the hoses out of her hands going down), but she is controlled herself (by the hoses going in to her head). So the question proposed is - who controls that which controls us?
I will post now some of the new prints, including the Hierophant - which is just a large cube (server) essentially, that has hoses and cables going out of it. The Hierophant IS that which controls us, and sends hoses into our minds (so the creatures more controlled in this deck are the ones with humanity left in them, such as the Empress or the Devil; then you have the completely untouched ones, such as the Star - but is she really? We don't see her face).
What I tried to do here is to give the age-old archetypes, which have been rechewed for close to 800 years, a bit of a new, futuristic flare, trying to incorporate some questions that will seem mundane only in a couple of years (how do you define life? is it ethical to torture a robot? why is artificial intelligence artificial? when does it stop being artificial? are we gods or demons?)
I hope the story will be better rounded out for you once I have posted all Major Arcana cards. I will be sure to post explanatory tidbits on all cards.