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From an interview by Mark McElroy
Q - Unless I'm mistaken, your earlier decks were primarily photographic, while later decks incorporate more and more computer manipulation of the images. How has the machine impacted your creative process?
A - Actually all my decks are based on photography. The recent web-decks are just manipulations of photographs – photography is art for us klutzes who couldn’t keep the crayons inside the printed lines – and especially for those of us who had the neuromuscular coordination but saw the printed lines as a stupid, imposed convention!
I have been using the ‘machine’ in my scientific work since 1967 – in my tarot work for about 5 years. Experiencing the ‘machine’ as image-processor as a great opening for me – the dimensions of creativity suddenly changed. The limits of possibility were once again only my own limitations – the limitations were no longer imposed on me – I had only myself to blame....
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