78

This is the 78 Tarot Project's base record: the collaborative enterprise itself, seventy-eight international artists, one card each, the format that produced the themed editions this catalog documents alongside it, Carnival among them. As a concept it is the deck world's purest census: no single vision, no house style, just the state of tarot-inclined illustration across the globe, one frame per practitioner. The collaborative format's trade-offs are constitutional: maximum variety, zero continuity, every reading a gallery walk past seventy-eight signatures. What the project adds beyond any single edition is documentary: its volumes together form a running survey of who is making card art and how, era by era. It suits collectors of the project's editions, artists studying seventy-eight contemporary portfolios at once, variety-loving readers, and anyone who prefers tarot as a chorus. Readers who bond with decks through a single maker's sustained voice should visit the project as an exhibition and live elsewhere.