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Kosmokrator      2004 Muramatsu Katsura      Japan                                                   Art Medium: Black and white gelatine photographs. Description: This is a Japanese majors only deck created from black and white photographs by the artist Muramatsu Katsura. Each image was originally created as large silver gelatine emulsion prints (the older method for printing out black and and white photographs). Here the artist has overprinted two or three different negatives to create the final image (a bit like photoshop layers but done in the darkroom with an enlarger rather than using a computer). The images are quite enigmatic and not immediately recognisable as tarot images. The cards come in a rather stylish concertina like black folder with a silver cover. Thus one can open out the concertina and have all the cards in a line. They are held into the folder by little slits which enable the cards to be easily removed and replaced.