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Calaca Tarot Card Deck

Name: Calaca Tarot Card Deck
Brand: Bob Rob Art
SKU: 79889376
Price: 19.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$19.99

During high school in the mid-1980s, my childhood friend Jimmy was getting involved with magic and inadvertently turned me on to the world of tarot cards. I would accompany him to Isis - a bookshop in Denver specializing in magic.

While he would be chatting with the owner about crystals and spells. I was captivated by the artwork on the various boxes of tarot cards sitting on the bookshelves and eventually bought a deck. I spent my junior and senior years learning how to read the cards. At seventeen, I lied to a tattoo shop about my age and got the Ace of Swords card on my shoulder!

Since then, I have remained fascinated by the imagery, the ability to use the cards for introspection, and the overall spiritual connection with the tarot. Nearly six months after releasing my book, Y Con Tu Espíritu: Palabras y Muertitos (Wake Up! Music, 2020) - a volume of calavera (skeleton) paintings & linocuts, and writings, I had a vision during a bike ride that it was time to create my own deck. With urgency, I managed to obsessively flesh out all 78-cards. All the images are hand-drawn/painted with high-quality acrylic inks on acid-free bristol paper.

The Calaca Tarot is primarily based on my interpretation of the Rider-Waite deck. My calavera figures are inspired by Mexican folk art such as Retablos, Ex-votos, Dia de Los Muertos nichos (shadow boxes), and illustrations from José Guadalupe Posada's broadsheets.

80 Cards
Tuck Box
UPC: 195893029006

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