2013

Three names share credit for 2013: David Carson, Nina Sammons, and Gigi Borri, working in oracle rather than tarot, so the deck owes nothing to a fixed Arcana structure and builds its own vocabulary of images. The catalog calls it colorful and contemporary, and the clearest concrete fact on record is a genuine design choice: oval cards rather than the standard rectangle. The archive's reviewer opens on a personal detour, a beaded change purse bought while traveling in Belize, before the excerpt breaks off. An oval card breaks the shuffle and spread habits built around rectangles, reading as either a real point of interest or a novelty depending on how much a reader values convention. Oracle decks live and die on the coherence of their own invented system rather than inherited symbolism, and nothing here confirms which kind 2013 turns out to be. Curious collectors drawn to unconventional formats, and oracle readers happy to learn a deck's logic from scratch, are the audience this one is built for.