Well, getting the card Two of Hearts and drawing the graphics for it on Valentine’s day had a sweet synchronicity that of course had to inspire the theme and style. The two hearts on the card resembles red roses/rose pedals and it looks as if you can look into the chambers of the hearts. The hearts look soft, fluid, organic. All very romantic of course.

The idea behind the artwork was trying to illustrate how “clubs” evolved throughout history and culture also what it means in terms of symbolism.

Club sandwiches are the fanciest of sandwiches because they not only have frilly toothpicks, but also 3 slices of bread. The 5 of clubs is an elite inner circle of that club, and the sandwiches contain even more pomp and circumstance.

My piece represents the many facets of sin and the relationship with gambling.

My brief is to develop art piece from “Nine Spade”. What come in my mind the first thing is “Cat”. In Thailand, we believe that cat is one of the animal that has the longest life some says cat has nine life. Therefore, this is what inspired me to create this art. I also use illusion technique to create a picture of cat in two character so the audience could look at my work from both side.

To be honest, designing a ’high’ card is a bit of a challenge to me. I wanted to design a reversible card and the illustration can stand on its own without looking at the given pictograms showing what card it is. Nature has always been my favourite subject. Natural elements such as animals and plants are used to incorporate 10 bits of diamonds with two of them facing each other at the centre forming an “X” symbol which means 10. The resulting piece is a reversible design with two sides that are totally different from each other.

The illustration of J of hearts is inspired in the poker game. Who has never feel extremely happy after wining a hand, and after few seconds get blow with a dagger and stays there on the green fabric. Poker is the representation of a mathematical game, where feelings play an important role and we may lose everything.

It’s a Lion-headed king slaying a snake. The design is based on a classic King card design, I just tried to put my style in it. I wrote キング in the banner, which is Japanese for “king”.