Curious

Michelle Cohen's Curious Tarot runs thirty-eight self-published experimental cards under exactly the right name: a count belonging to no tradition, a whimsical-experimental register, the deck as open question. The thin record suits the project; experimental decks of the self-published wave often survive as rumors with card counts, their documentation as unconventional as their structures. Thirty-eight cards invites speculation the catalog declines to fabricate: selection, invention, or a system whose logic traveled only with its maker. What the record does support is the genre placement, the experimental wing where structure itself is the medium, the Earthair's ninety-five and this deck's thirty-eight bracketing the same freedom. It suits experimental-deck collectors, structure-curious readers, small-press hunters comfortable with mystery, and anyone whose favorite question is the deck's own name. The fully explained await elsewhere in their orderly seventy-eights; curiosity, as the deck's title understands, was always a complete practice by itself.