Swear to goodness, I just don’t know how these people do it:
Karen Mahoney and Alex Ukolov of Magic Realist Press have done it again. Oh look — and again:
And oop, don’t look now, but this is on the way as well.
I think my head might explode.
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June 22nd, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Heehee - and thank-you (I think). We work at least a seventy hour week and we love every second of it (okay, okay, almost every second). Alex and I are two people who always wanted to meet “the” perfect person to work with. Then we met here in Prague and lots of stuff neither of us could have done on our own became much more possible
Or it could be a form of obsessive complusive behaviour of course - hard to tell…
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Oh, that was a compliment! Love, love, love your work. I have three of your decks with the fourth on the way (it was just shipped). I’ll be buying your future decks in perpetuity…
Are you from Prague?
Thanks for stopping by the blog!
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
No, I’m Irish (well with a name like Mahony…) but I live in Prague with Alex, who is Russian (from Yalta). We both have some distant Czech family connections though.
I do sometimes wonder if what we’re doing is completely crazy - oh well, even if it is, it’s what we do. When I first met Alex we discovered we both loved fairytales and the work sort of went on from there - we’re both refugees from branding and advertising.
Thanks for the support and enthusiasm. I’ll send you the Victorian to review if you’d like it - well, wait until you can see more of the cards, but I think it might be one of the best things we’ve done.
PS - can’t take too much credit for the Flower Oracle, as it’s really pure “restored” (we were working from some rather battered 1847 hand-coloured images) Grandville - so wasn’t hard to do. The Menagerie had a lot more “collaging” done to make the images (well, it’s sort of a redrawing/recombining, not classic collage).
I have to ask you this, do you crochet, or is it more knitting that you do? I used to be a compulsive crocheter - really, it got a bit out of hand at one stage. I still have enough yarn to stock a small shop but I’m almost afraid to start again.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Mahony — of course, shoulda guessed!
I would *love* a copy of the Victorian to review. I’ve plugged your other decks via Endicott and I’m really looking forward to this one. I’ll post something on the new blog about the Animal Menagerie when it arrives.
I knit AND crochet, yes, and I have a yarn stash that, while not as insane as some I’ve seen (this comes to mind), pretty much threatens to take over the entire studio. I go back and forth between knitting and crocheting — crocheting is really satisfying for things like handbags.
I craft a lot as a way to transition between working at my day job and the rest of my life (especially writing). Lately I’ve also been drawn to collage and things like altered books and art journalling, which I’m *just* starting to get into. Your work is really inspiring there.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Someone recently took (with permission) some of our Bohemian Cats and made them into parcel tags - very nice work, quite layered collage with lots of texture - she used some yarn too (always a good thing in my book).
I must get back to crochet. I did once intend to crochet a Magician card (I sometimes do very fine tapestry crochet) but the total silence on AT when I announced this was a bit off-putting
Oh well, one for my old age…
Thanks for the Endicott plugs. They (I think it was Midori) gave us a very nice recommendation for Bohemian Cats (book not deck) and I did wonder about sending Shadow of the Vampuss also - perhaps I still should?
I think you’ll like the Victorian Romantic. I began by thinking it wouldn’t be a patch on See of Logos (which is of course far more radical and more of a piece of art). Now I’m not so sure - VR is entirely different, but I think it may prove a powerful reading deck. Oh well, we’ll see, I never fully “get” one of our decks until I have the whole thing and can read with it.
Do post some more crochet sometime - I love seeing GOOD crochet. The best I ever saw was a skirt a woman at Tate Modern was wearing - obviously very expensive and very, very fine and abstract - unbelievable colours, design and workmanship! Poor woman must have wondered why I stopped and stared at her legs - just trying to work out how it was done, and didn’t succeed. Among all the boring crochet it’s astonishing when you see something like that that stops you in your tracks.