Jolanda

The Jolanda record carries a self-published personal deck of distinctive artistic vision, and little more; the catalog's under-documented shelf takes another resident, filed under a first name that may or may not be the maker's own. Personal decks published under single names were the self-publishing era's signature intimacy, the deck as signed letter rather than branded product. What thin records preserve is the fact of participation: someone made seventy-eight cards of their own vision and sent them into the world, which is the tradition's grassroots working exactly as it always has. The catalog's documentation instinct meets its humility case here, recording that a deck existed and mattered enough to list, even when the paper trail ends at the name. It suits provenance hunters, collectors of the single-name intimates, and readers who like their catalog honest about its edges. Somewhere the Jolanda's owner-readers know everything this note cannot; documentation was always a relay race.