Anson Maddocks has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Conservation of Minotaur that will ever be made.

 

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.

 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

 

Artist Statement:

 

This piece was initially commissioned by a private collector with an interest in a fusion concept involving two previously published illustrations. I decided to depict a scene as derelict and uncomfortable as those two originals had been, only this time replacing what were human skeletal figures with those of Minotaurs in various states of decay.

 

My depiction of Minotaurs has always included extensive tribal inkings and ritual scarification. Without their intact flesh to consider, I chose to give those characteristic embellishments a supernatural presence in the air immediately surrounding each of them or hovering where they were meant to be when the creature had flesh to hold them.

 

This final digital montage incorporates selected elements which were photographed throughout the many stages, now hidden, that preceded the finished piece.