These cards have become a bit like a medicine for me. A medicine for my concern with those points of divergence between my living history and a speculative alternative history I can now see the two realms at once. Two games, yours and the verso game, an additional one waiting to be played, in another time or space. A mirrored world, an unheralded parallel reality in the present reality that we know.
– “ Parallel Cards, ” Ryan Gander, Dot Dot Dot #16, 2008
Ryan Gonder, Image of twins playing with a pack of Parallel cards, 2008, lithographic print on the reverse of. the instructions accompanying Paralle! Cards (a standard set of playing cards printed on both sides), 43.2 x 31.3 cm