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Tarot de Jean-Luc Bonicel      1986 Jean-Luc Bonicel      France                                                   Art Medium: Collage. Assembled by hand. Description: For his source material Bonicel used fine line engraving, probably steel engravings from the 19th and early 20th century. These have extremely fine lines with almost no softness to the edges. He uses hundreds of individual components to make up each card. Probably these were photographed on a litho process camera on a large negative which then was corrected and any edges of the paper layers stopped out. The result is some amazingly complex collaged images. When scanned and jpeged all of the crispness is lost and one only has a fuzzy, muddy mess to look at. It is at the summit of what can be achieved in black and white collage though only owners of an actual deck will appreciate this.