To commemorate Anson Maddocks giving this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions 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 the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

 

You can play with this as a signed 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.