![]() ![]() The stark contrast between black and white gives a quasi-expressionist feel to the deck. The deck is designed by hand with black pen strokes and watercolour. Kim Krans wrote about a lesson she learned from her high school art teacher: there was only one line to contain and transmit energy.Īnd this emerges in the graphic aspect of the cards, always very accurate and consistent. ![]() The traditional figures are substituted with characters of the traditional family: the queen is the mother, the king is the father, the daughter is the page and the son is the knight. And the hierarchy we see in humanoid cards still exists in the jungle.Īnimals even replace the tools that appear in the Tarot of Marseilles: the cups become swans, the sticks become snakes, the swords owls and the money deer. The cheetah Magician and the horse of the Chariot are very different compared to the dove that appears in the letter of the Judgment or the chick of the Fool. In an interview, Kim Krans said she likes to avoid giving pages, knights, kings and queens human forms, so the reader does not get bogged down with themes such as social class.īut we must not forget that animals are also linked to a profound symbology, and the effect they have on the reader is quite different. ![]() ![]() This deck became a tarot phenomenon! The first thing that jumps to the eye is that in this deck there are no men, no women, but only animals and natural elements. ![]()
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