A Word From the Artist.

For years I've dreamed of a tarot of my own interpretation. A tarot which exists closer to the modern, real world. Given that the tarot has been around since the early 14th century and evolved over time, it appears that the symbolism, story and imagery have changed very little. I am perhaps most disturbed when viewing tarots that bear fairies, mythological people and creatures on them. This is not something to which I can relate. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a fairy.

In my personal travels, I have seen the depths of a world which most often the collective society tends to ignore, pretending it doesn't exist. Through my art I attempt to exploit those depths, bring them to the viewer's eye, make them confront what lurks in our living underworld. Inside every aspect of beauty we see, there is a filth underneath.

It is that filth, the strange beauty and the bizarre that I've spent so many years of my life seeing to which I can relate when attempting to connect (on some level) with something that has become a spiritual tool.

This tarot will express the true world in which we live - and it is, indeed, a macabre and savage place to exist.
~MX