{"id":21054,"date":"2013-11-06T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=21054"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:10:05","slug":"a-new-mexican-tarot-for-the-modern-age-john-picacios-loteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/11\/06\/a-new-mexican-tarot-for-the-modern-age-john-picacios-loteria\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Mexican Tarot For The Modern Age: John Picacio’s Loteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have it on good authority that I don’t need to tell you who John Picacio is<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Oh, hello, sci-fi and fantasy artist with a metric fuckload of awards and nominations? He’s put together a helluva Kickstarter<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that’s got a week left, and I’m honored to have him here talking about his take on the Mexican card game, Loteria. Here he is to talk about it a little and, OOOH PRETTY, demonstrate some of the magnum-sized art-tacular bad-assery he’s bringing to the table this time around:<\/em><\/p>\n

How many of you out there have heard of the Mexican game of chance called Loteria? Even better — how many of you have played it?<\/p>\n

If you know how Bingo is played, then you know how to play Loteria. If you’ve eaten in a Mexican restaurant, then chances are you may have glimpsed Loteria images.<\/p>\n

The original game looks like this:<\/p>\n

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I played it as a kid with my mother and grandma. I loved the icons on those cards. They’re a constellation of the everyday mixed with the otherworldly — a quintessentially Mexican combination.<\/p>\n

What would happen if these cards weren’t just cartoonish icons? What would happen if I re-engineered those fifty-four cards with new artwork by me and fashioned them as a deck of Mexican Tarot? Here’s a peek:<\/p>\n

Here’s the ‘La Sirena’ card from the traditional Loteria game:<\/p>\n

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Here’s my ‘La Sirena’ card from my new Loteria:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the ‘El Pescado’ card from the traditional Loteria game:<\/p>\n

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Here’s my ‘El Pescado’ card from my new Loteria:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the ‘El Arpa’ card from the traditional Loteria game:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s my ‘El Arpa’ card from my new Loteria:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the ‘La Rosa’ card from the traditional Loteria game:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s my ‘La Rosa’ card from my new Loteria:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Getting the idea?<\/p>\n

I’ll finish the first dozen artworks before the end of 2013, in time to be featured as my 2014 John Picacio Calendar. I want to finish the entire set of fifty-four artworks by the end of 2014. It will be like climbing Mount Everest, but I’m committed to making this new modern Mexican Tarot into a reality.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be an amazing art ride, and I invite you to be a part of it<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have it on good authority that I don’t need to tell you who John Picacio is. Oh, hello, sci-fi and fantasy artist with a metric fuckload of awards and nominations? He’s put together a helluva Kickstarter that’s got a week left, and I’m honored to have him here talking about his take on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21054"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21074,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}