Carnivale
2003
Orange Velvet Design Studio
USA
Art Medium:
Digitally created.
Description:
In 2003-2004 HBO produced a television series called Carnivāle, which was a very dark and almost surreal melodrama incorporating tarot images in its opening credits and a fortune teller as one of its main characters. In 2004 they decided to issue a tarot deck as a promotional item. This has no relationship to the tarot imagery used in the TV show and are simple oval mask like faces. In the Major arcana the eye on the right bears a symbol associated with the tarot trump, while with the Minors the eye on the left holds a symbol for the suit. The creators of this tarot had probably not even seen the television show as they base their designs on carnival mask forms, whereas the show is about a traveling circus.
