Thanks, Potato! So far that's about all the celebration that's happened. I have some wine and really good chocolate in the fridge, but I keep on being too busy to break it out!
I've thought of making a couple decks to sell at the show, but I don't think I have the
time, given that I still need to figure out how to have all the prints framed, preferably without spending $1000 or so. Besides, it's not quite done: two more Fools, three 99s, and maybe the Void court remain to be drawn, and I can't imagine selling it without those. Plus the photo paper I used to print on it is kinda clingy. There may be a small hand-made edition of decks, but probably not until after the show.
One of these decks
may get used for readings during the opening, if the Tarotist who's providing those can connect with my deck. She's never been able to connect with the Thoth, and this owes a lot to it, so we'll see.
As to back designs, look in the middle of
this poster test - I've had a back designed, I've just never bothered posting it.
Debra, the working name of the deck, "The Urnash Tarot", follows the really boring convention of "The <creator name> Tarot". I've been using the nom-de-plume Egypt Urnash for several years, which is an anagram of an
older nom-de-plume of mine. I got the idea of an anagrammatic alias from Edward Gorey, whose art was a big influence on me. The tentative new name, "The Silicon Dawn Tarot", is of course referring to its roots in the Golden Dawn (my main references for the pips and courts were Book T and the Book of Thoth), as well as to the fact that it's made amidst the Information Age.
(Why am I up at 4:30? Who knows. My sleep cycle's been wonky.)