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The Wild Unknown Tarot is often told as a solo story, one artist hand drawing an entire deck alone before HarperCollins picked it up nationally, and that account is accurate as far as it goes. What it leaves out is what The Wild Unknown became afterward: an arts collective Kim Krans curates together with her husband, musician Arjan Miranda, extending the original deck project into a joint creative practice rather than a single finished product she moved on from.
A PRINT Magazine profile on the family's work described the balancing act directly, an artist and a musician running overlapping creative businesses, e-commerce operations and a family together, treating the commercial machinery behind a bestselling tarot deck, shipping, licensing, a growing product line, as work shared across a household and a working artistic partnership rather than carried by one name alone.
Krans traces her own path from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where she was born and raised, to Portland, Oregon, where she is now based, a cross country route the deck's own creation story, built around a New York art education and a self published launch, does not mention. That geographic arc, rural Michigan to a New York arts education to a West Coast creative household, frames The Wild Unknown collective's current home base as the latest stop in a longer personal move rather than a fixed studio address attached to the deck from the start.