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Regretsy Tarot      2011 Various      USA                       'Towel Mike' card.                             Art Medium: Various media. Description: Etsy.com was established in 2005 to provide an online site where small scale independent artists and craftworkers could sell their productions. It is a good source for a mass of craft and artwork, some excellent, but some embarassingly naive. April Winchell one of the Etsy members set up a website Regretsy.com that took an irreverent and humorous view of some of the Etsy productions. This website became a focus for a number of artists and in 2011 Wendy Sheridan set up a project to create an artist collective tarot, the Regretsy Tarot. The 78 card deck takes an ironic and playful glance, parodying the sort of material presented on Etsy and similar outlets, but avoiding descending into cruel and inappropriate targetting. It presents a deliciously light and frothy view of this material through the artwork of 25 artists in the Regretsy collective.