I think what was so delightful about this project was rediscovering such an ordinary item, which really isn't ordinary at all if you look at it from the right angle. No commonplace is safe from the transformation of a genuine "what if...?": what if playing card suits were to be plants? What if the symbols were mere shadows, and a diamond really was a flower seen from above, clubs were a bunch of berries, spades carnivorous as daggers and hearts were tender changing leaves? It doesn't take much to infuse some magic into the every day. So I shook the dust off my preconceptions, bent my head to the side and squinted a little. The pencil did the rest.
