There is a restaurant located at the Farmer's Market in Los Angeles called "Loteria! Grill" that is decorated entirely with colorful images that are all uniform in size and totally unrelated to each other. Painted with bright colors and the odd way in which each image is drawn makes them strangely attractive. Covering the restaurant they are irresistible.
Loteria Grill at Farmer's Market, Los Angeles, CA
Loteria Grill at Farmer's Market, Los Angeles, CA
While browsing the used book section at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in Beverly Hills, CA, there was a deck of colorful cards on the counter that caught my eye.
They contained the same images I loved from the Loteria! Grill. Now I get it! The images at the restaurant were taken from this Mexican game of chance named, "Loteria!" The game is similar to Bingo! but instead of the Master of Ceremonies drawing out a ball with a number on it, he/she pulls a card from the deck and announces the image. Each player has a sheet similar to a Bingo card with 16 random images from the deck, four across and four down. First player to get four in a row wins!
When I discovered the price for the entire game was only $5 I grabbed it. "These Loteria! sheets will make great postcards to send my friends!" I couldn't wait to start sending them out.
But wait that's not all! When I got home I was enjoying going through the deck of cards and for some reason they reminded me of a deck of Tarot cards. So I decided to have some fun and make them so by assigning each card it's unique interpretive meaning. Here is an example of my favorite; "El Borracho."
El Borracho
"El Borracho" this represents a strong desire to succeed without taking any steps to do so, while complaining that those who are succeeding got all the breaks you deserved. Famous last words, "I'll show'em!" (These words are rarely understood since they are usually slurred).
Anyone up for a reading?
"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense." - Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense." - Pablo Picasso
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