Sacred Incantations

oracle deck design

rituals of trans wisdom

This work was created in collaboration with enfleshed for their sacred incantations project - an oracle like deck featuring 76 cards and  corresponding books of rituals.

I designed the artwork for the back of the cards, the box, and the book of incantations. I illustrated dandelions in their gorgeous cycle through germinating, rooting, blooming, and decaying, which mirrors the four seasons of incantations throughout the deck. Dandelions also symbolize the resilience, strength, and determination of the trans community.

While working on this project, the team realized they had a problem — the dimensions of the card box were unknown, and would not be known until production started. So I problem-solved and proposed a template layout that allowed the artwork to wrap around the box. With my proposed layout, the artwork would organically flow around the box, regardless of the final dimensions.