Mirrors

Mirrors is a cultural translation guide in a card deck. Its prompts help people put what they see, hear, feel and think in front of a piece of art into words someone else can understand, and say what it does to them. It guides the critiques I lead.

This page follows the deck from its first version to the regular deck, and sets up its launch.

I made the deck: the five lenses, every prompt, the card design and the packaging. The launch campaign is mine too.

The five lenses come from how I critique: see, hear, feel, think, and experience. Each card asks you to finish one thought, because one honest sentence is easier to say out loud than a speech.

Each lens keeps its own color: yellow for See, orange for Hear, red for Feel, violet for Think, green for Experience. Every prompt card carries a small color note, so the deck teaches a little about color while you use it.

1. Version 1: Mirror

   One card per lens, plus "The Experience" and a "How the night flows" card for running a session.

2. The regular deck: Mirrors

   Eleven prompts per lens, a guide card for how the mirrors reflect, five section dividers, a notepad and pencil, and a black flip-top box.

1. 1 · Version 1

   Expand: Version 1 SEE card, bright blue front and a cream back with three prompts

   One bold color per lens.

2. 2 · The full lens

   Expand: The SEE lens: a yellow front and eleven cream prompt cards

   Eleven prompts per lens, each with a color note.

3. 3 · The regular deck

   Expand: Five section dividers: See, Hear, Feel, Think, Experience

   Five lenses, one box.

The launch campaign, a short film, captions and a rollout plan, and the first printed decks.