A complete tarot deck
structured through Major and Minor Arcana.
structured through Major and Minor Arcana.
Strigarum Arcana is a complete tarot deck of 78 cards.
It follows the traditional structure of tarot while developing an original visual system based on abstraction, material, and composition.
It follows the traditional structure of tarot while developing an original visual system based on abstraction, material, and composition.
Structure
The deck is composed of 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana.
Each card preserves its traditional meaning, while expressing it through spatial relationships, balance, and symbolic tension.
The system remains readable within the logic of tarot, while shifting its visual language away from narrative illustration.
Each card preserves its traditional meaning, while expressing it through spatial relationships, balance, and symbolic tension.
The system remains readable within the logic of tarot, while shifting its visual language away from narrative illustration.
Visual Language
Figures and symbols are reduced to essential elements.
Meaning is constructed through position, direction, density, and interaction rather than representation.
The cards operate as structures, where balance and imbalance define interpretation.
Meaning is constructed through position, direction, density, and interaction rather than representation.
The cards operate as structures, where balance and imbalance define interpretation.
A Human Process
Every card in Strigarum Arcana originates from a physical drawing, built slowly through gesture, pressure, and time. The materials themselves are part of the meaning: Japanese carbon ink, red ink, gold and silver leaf applied by hand on 200 g cotton calligraphy paper by Favini.
In a visual culture increasingly shaped by digital precision and automated generation, this work moves deliberately in another direction, where the image is not corrected into perfection but allowed to retain its irregularities. The line is therefore to be read not as a neutral contour, but as the trace of a human action, with its hesitations, its variations, and its internal balance.
From the figures to the lettering, every element is drawn by hand. This is not a stylistic affectation, but a structural choice: the deck seeks a form of coherence in which meaning emerges through tension rather than uniformity.
The original drawings are not scanned but photographed, in order to preserve the depth and texture of the cotton paper. The gold and silver leaf elements are then carefully reworked in digital form, not to alter the image, but to enable a faithful print through metallic foiling.
The result is a hybrid object: materially rooted in the physical gesture, yet translated into a reproducible form without losing its imperfections. And it is precisely within those imperfections that the image remains alive.
Position
Strigarum Arcana does not attempt to reproduce historical styles or reinterpret folklore.
It is an original system that remains grounded in the structure of tarot while introducing a distinct visual and conceptual identity.
The project is not a variation, but a construction.
It is an original system that remains grounded in the structure of tarot while introducing a distinct visual and conceptual identity.
The project is not a variation, but a construction.
The work continues.