Most of the Time It Started Like This consists of fifty-six 8”x10” drawings, mirroring the number of cards in the Tarot’s Minor Arcana. Each drawing is the result of a combinatorial system of images, text, colors and patterns that recur throughout the set, with each composition existing in a state between revelation and concealment. Images of magicians, party-store supplies, and decorative patterns are brought together in a game of ever-shifting surfaces.