Enjoy Coca-Cola Playing Cards (Green) is a process art series in which a deck of cards is shuffled, the top card is flipped over, and a representation of that card is painted with acrylics on a section of 10” x 14” raw canvas before the original card is returned to the deck. This process is repeated until the entire deck is painted.

Each painting is begun on a Sunday and finished before the following Sunday. 52 cards in a deck and 52 weeks in a year. Returning each card to the deck will result in multiple repeat card paintings. The exact number of paintings needed to complete Enjoy Coca-Cola Playing Cards (Green) is unknown. It could have been as few as 52 paintings, but it might go on indefinitely. Using the Euler Constant, a calculation shows that this project will most likely require about 236 paintings over the next four and a half years. 

Enjoy Coca-Cola Playing Cards (Green) began on Memorial Day 2025. The deck of cards used for the project is a novelty deck mimicking Victorian Era Coca-Cola cards, but likely printed in the 1960s in Hong Kong. The cards belonged to the artist’s grandmother and are soft and yellow with age. Each card contains imperfections: the stains, smears, bends, and folds of the artist’s family’s card-playing over many decades. Capturing these imperfections and patinas are essential to the paintings, which straddle the line between abstractions and accurate depictions.

There are several rules that the artist has followed:

1. Each painting must begin on Sunday and be finished before the following Sunday.

2. The paintings must be done freehand.

3. The canvas cannot be turned upside down.

4. The artist must paint each card as it appears to him, and consider the cards themselves as a kind of family talisman: imperfections, aura, and all.

5. If the artist fails at any of these rules, he must paint the joker, which resembles Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon. Apparently, people in the 60s were obsessed with Peanuts characters. 

6. The artist does not know how to paint. He learns by asking for advice at independent art stores where he purchases his paint, brushes, and canvas. Shout out to Walter & Angus at Soho Art Materials.