There's two thoughts that exist simultaneously for me when considering the grayscale aesthetic of the deck. The deck really started out organically as there was no plan in the beginning to illustrate all 78 cards.  So, in the beginning, the black and white was purely for aesthetic. I simply really like the way it looks. I liked the challenge of seeing if the values could take me as far as color could when evoking feelings with different cards.

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Then, around the time I did the first major arcana card and added the gold, the theme of a feminine forward deck was starting to take shape in my head and I assigned a bit more meaning to the monochromatic look.

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 I think that women often get put into a box when it comes to how we should be, both at home and in public, how we act and what our roles are. Very black and white. While I do believe women share a universal experience because of how society often categorizes us, we are not all the same. We contain diverse multitudes and live individual lives, hence the rendering of values in the artwork instead of just black and white lines. I enjoyed the challenge of making a diverse deck within the constraints of grayscale.

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So, surface level: It just looks cool and I like it. Dive deeper, and it's a nod to sisterhood/womanhood.