To Take Your Pleasure Seriously card deck
52 cards printed on archival linen, with velvet finish, 35mm film photographs and instructional poems.
To Take Your Pleasure Seriously is a deck of 52 cards, it is a participatory artwork that invites you to draw a card at random each week for a year.
To Take Your Pleasure Seriously is a slow unfolding, a long form practice, an invitation to attend to what brings aliveness. Each card carries an instructional poem, an offering, a prompt, a way of remembering and returning to the erotic as a gentle act of resistance.
The deck was created between 2021–2025 as part of a body of work emerging from a series of intimate conversations and photographs taken in Miami, Gold Coast on Kombumerri Country and Miami, Florida on the lands and waters of the Miccosukee and Seminole people this work was made during The Walls Artspace residency program MIAMI/MIAMI.
There are a limited edition of 33 sets of cards.
I hope that these bring pleasure, sweetness and connection into your life,
with love, Merinda xx