2006: Burningman Divination Cards
For burningman 2006 I made a deck of divination cards. Durring the event I asked if people would make new cards, and in exchange each person could focus on a question and draw a card from the deck to keep. In this way the total size of the deck remained stable but the contents were constantly shifting. On the night of the burn only 2 of my initial cards remained in the deck, these cards, along with cards from over 60 people, were sacrificed in flames and live on in ashes. Here you find the original scans, plus the card I picked for myself to keep before I released them into the pyre. From the original set I conciously decided to scan all but 4 cards, which combined with the fact that cards were burned means that it will forever be impossible to fully reconstitute the original deck. There was such a strong interest in the concept that at some point I will color and re-release the deck from these scans.
Nov 10, 2006
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