Limited Editions
Not all decks in the genre have a wide market. OH cards are, in a sense, a specialized art form, described at one time by Raman as "unbound books." In this spirit, OH Verlag published four limited edition decks for collectors: Beauregard, by American artist Joan Beauregard; a deck of delicate and absorbing abstract collages; Lydia Jacob Story, collage–drawings by the French artist Raymond E. Waydelich. In a different vein, Bosch, which consists of 65 cards of details from Heironimus Bosch’s masterpiece, the Garden of Earthly Delights that can be assembled, jig–saw style, to see a reproduction of the famous triptych as a whole. For a special, personal take on art, there is an anthology of 55 details from some of Paul Gauguin’s best–loved paintings that Egetmeyer assembled under the title of Tahiti. Each of these decks explores the possibilities of presenting ideas in an unbound book –– a deck of cards.
The process of drawing pictorial images at random and then using these images in some way to invent a menu or a story, or trigger intuitive insights into psychological and social situations is unnerving for some people. There is an anarchic undertone to such activity that upsets people who are used to information presented sequentially, as in books. But the process also provides fun, stimulus for the exercise of imagination, and an opportunity for communal interaction. Since most of the decks are printed on poker–sized cards, cards from different decks can combined. Typically, a picture from a deck such as Persona is placed on an OH word card, or the abstractions in Persona are used to draw a number of 1001 cards to develop a complex story. This makes the genre more elastic, but also potentially confusing.
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