TRANSMISSION // WORK IN PROGRESS
THE LOST HIGHWAY
TAROT
78 hand-painted cards, one endless night road. The deck is in the studio right now — paintings are being finished, scans are being plated, and the Kickstarter is how this thing hits print.
FRESH FROM THE STUDIO
REAL PAINTINGS, IN PROGRESS
The Fool
Gas in the tank, map on fire.
Death
Exit 13. No U-turns.
The Tower
The signal always wins.
The Sun
Dawn on the desert two-lane.
The Moon
Something's driving behind you.
The Chariot
Hands at ten and two.
+ 72 more in the studio · Pull a card with the full deck in the reader
WHY THIS DECK
01 / PAINTED, NOT GENERATED
Every card in this deck began as a physical painting. You're buying 78 finished artworks — scanned at print resolution, lettered by hand, and pressed on 350gsm black-core stock.
02 / A DECK WITH A ROAD
The Lost Highway isn't a theme slapped on the RWS skeleton. It's a full re-mapping of the tarot onto the American night drive — diners, dead towns, radio preachers, and the long pull toward dawn.
03 / BUILT BY A READER
This deck was painted by a working reader and is already live in the Nexus reader — every spread you pull on this site uses these exact paintings and meanings, so you can road-test it before it ships.
THE HIGHWAY OPENS WHEN THE GOAL HITS
Backers get the deck first, at the lowest price it will ever carry — plus campaign-only extras that never reach the shop. Every pledge turns another painting into a printed card.