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Shen Zhou Tarot      2009 S.K.Y.      Taiwan                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings. Description: Printed on matt silver surfaced card. The deck may be named in honour of the famous Chinese painter of the Ming dynasty. It is rather well printed in black line on a silver background, with the titles in red circles. The original pen drawings are beautifully conceived, and show us the artist's subtle sense of humour. Thus the Fool is an elephant carrying the mountain on his back rather than being about to step off a precipice. The Moon has a rabbit at its centre seeming to be pounding something in a mortar. We recall that in Chinese mythology, the Jade Rabbit was seen in the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding herbs in a mortar to make the Elixir of life for the Moon goddess Chang'e.