Artist Decoded

The archive's carried excerpt opens not with the deck but with a definition of artificial intelligence, and that framing is itself the document: the first question a reviewer now asks of a new contemporary deck is how it was made, provenance of the hand becoming part of every deck's reception. What the moment means is worth stating plainly: decks now carry a new axis of provenance, human, machine-assisted, machine-made, and the reading community's scrutiny, like the archive's own human-made declaration, is the tradition defending what it values about authorship. This entry preserves that turning point, a deck arriving at the exact moment the question changed. It suits collectors documenting tarot's AI-era reckoning, contemporary-deck readers who ask the new first question, and anyone studying how craft communities police their boundaries. Readers who want the argument settled rather than observed will find no verdict here, because the tradition has not reached one.