Corneal Edema

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I opened the box and looked and it just seemed so cold, flat. I put it away. Picked it up later – well of course this deck comes off as cold. But it is not flat. And it does not lack emotion – it is distant, reserved...at first. The Corneal Edema (Yeah I know it’s a funky name – think ‘eye-sore’) is done in what I would refer to as ‘scratched sepia-tone’ photo-collage. However the illustrations are not static; they are like frames from an old movie – captured motion – and that is very cool. Old, scratched, faded, blurred like the film in “The Ring.” The only real ‘color’ in the deck appears in on XIII Death. There are only two male figures in The Corneal Edema Tarot, one in The Emperor, and the other in The Lovers. It is not however to be taken as a feminine, or feminist deck This deck oozes power. And to me, it is a dualistic power. It is stylized, tasteful, semi-Goth. It is dark without being disturbing. The Hanged Woman hangs from her neck rather than her feet, The Fool gazes into a darkened arched doorway, skulls grace the threshold, – she looks pensive and winsome. The Hermit is the most wonderful hermit I’ve seen in a long time. I love the Hierophant being depicted as a woman

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