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Tarot of the 78 Doors

Contemporary urban tarot using symbolism of doors and keys.

by Antonella Platano · Lo Scarabeo · 2005

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The concept for the Tarot of the 78 Doors is one from Pietro Alligo at Lo Scarabeo, executed by Antonella Platano, the artist who illustrated the Gay Tarot. While her latest deck is visually in the same artistic style, here the symbolism of doors and keys is set into a very urban, contemporary environment of tattoo parlours and computers mixed with a pre-twentieth century fantasy world of centaurs and castles. The majority of the cards are set in the pretty fantasy environment. Less than twenty have the modern look, and curiously often depict medical scenes of hospitals, surgeries, doctors and alternative therapies. The Ten of Swords shows a white-coated acupuncturist with an uncomfortable-looking patient lying with a multitude of needles in his back. The Four of Chalices depicts a paunchy man slumped in front of the television, a packet of chips on his lap and remote in his hand. The man in the Six of Swords sits at a desk working at a computer with an up-to-the-minute 19" LCD monitor. I like Platano’s scenic artistic style, which is rendered in muted natural tones and is consistent across virtually all the cards. It shows a realism and detail in each situation; human faces of all

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