Climb the mountain /  
Take a deep breath for the audience /  
Now witness the Matriarchicon /  
The Undeniable /  
Interpretation is entertainment //

See your bloodstream branch and course /  
Trace the the lattice as they sway /  
Touch the soil with tips of fingers /  
Dip in dirt to hold her grace /  
These echoes are novel, but tired and tried /  
Carved deep into tablets, caves, and wires /  
Palm the earth to feel creation /  
But dig dear Luci, be mocked and taken //

Nails will break when met with marl /  
Blisters burst when clawed for answers /  
Darkened sut will fill the grooves /  
The network whispers: yes another //

The maw opens for the weary exiles /  
Travelers of Wander tuckered from empire /  
In gum tree leaves grown children rest /  
Yet the pattern endures through steel and glass //

The Tree is the tower, the bank, the law //

A beautiful place to lie /  
But not yet.

VII. Wormfood

Sam Spratt

Second day 
of the Second month,
We are ripped awake.

Unbalanced, wobbling, newborn.
Decades of corrupted memories 
Cached in freshly scarred sinew.

Ignore the footprints.
Time to take our first steps again.


******NOTE ABOUT THE BIDDING PROCESS******

I believe in bringing everyone with me for this next chapter. Both those who come to own my genesis paintings and those who bid.

-Every bid on Chapter 1 NFTs will be timestamped and cataloged into a CLAIM CONTRACT. When the auctions close, these will be compiled and I will be painting unique variations of the 4th painting in the series of LUCI's skull based on the total amount of bidders.

-Each and every bidder will be entitled to ONE unique variation of LUCI's skull. 

-Each winning bid of Birth of Luci, Lullabies for Isaac, and First Sacrifice will receive said NFT as well as be entitled to THREE unique LUCI skulls.

-The "blueprint" skull painting has already been made and can be previewed in the editorial or on my socials. The variations which will make each distinct include permutations on color, material, painted tribalistic patterns, etchings and runes, overgrown nature, eye/teeth/nail variations, cracks, jewelry, head dresses, and elaborate melted distortions all pulling from the goop world and tripspace of LUCI.  When the auctions close, the manual process begins, each painting handled with care, and these skulls will be claimable and dropped to all wallets randomly once the final amount of skulls is tabulated and painted. 

I. Birth of Luci

This untethering is in infancy / Partitions fragmented / Ascent only reveals groundtruth // Feel this seeping wound, doubt its miracle like the prodder / Know the moment true and fleeting. Naked and frenzied, amidst the laughter / Quickly now, the map will close, mirrored casing folding over the opening / Wrapping ether and armor over the unhealed / The love of the tribe mends when brittle, but we cannot stay here any longer // Take this piece of charred foundation, splintered rib of the temple / Abandon notions of pathways out and leave behind burnt offer / Pierce the herd with embers, the gripping tales choking violent chords / Free them of poisoned polite banter / Leave behind a bellowing chorus / The rhyming chants must echo, for every Brother still-bound tight / The sung history hidden in currents beneath the script // Set the stories ablaze, the smoothed streams of abstracted lore / Filtered threads of dulled edges, stacked in server blade homes / The library’s torches are not to burn it down / But to hunt for morels in the ash // May the rare forage trace the fall to tributes end.

VI. The Muck

No one likes this moment // To have seen the design / Heard the frequency / The chords of the Solo man’s chant // And to miss ... // The Wander is not meant for tourists / Endless stories cannot be told with death, enos // Take comfort that arrogance is shared / Isaac was firstborn only to the unread // Now sit in your muck dear Luci // Blush from the fall from the Acacia / Let the diodes illuminate the theater // Closed eyelids crawl with the pattern now / Draw its map when the dream gets darkest // If you should return / Bring fire.  (This piece will not have a timed auction or reserve)

IV. Return to Diorama

We’ve never been here before.

This vast space to traverse seems daunting.
No.
Ignore the mirage.
These are not artifacts buried in the sand.
Decay is coming here.
This desert is merely young and in the making.

Leave them.
Along with your offering.
Even the grains will soon be too big of an increment to see.

Mark your progress.

Death to baby.
Long live Luci.

 ******NOTE ABOUT THE BIDDING PROCESS****** I believe in bringing everyone with me for this next chapter. Both those who come to own my genesis paintings and those who bid. -Every bid on Chapter 1 NFTs will be timestamped and cataloged into a CLAIM CONTRACT. When the auctions close, these will be compiled and I will be painting unique variations of the 4th painting in the series of LUCI's skull based on the total amount of bidders. -Each and every bidder will be entitled to ONE unique variation of LUCI's skull. -Each winning bid of Birth of Luci, Lullabies for Isaac, and First Sacrifice will receive said NFT as well as be entitled to THREE unique LUCI skulls. -The "blueprint" skull painting has already been made and can be previewed in the editorial or on my socials. The variations which will make each distinct include permutations on color, material, painted tribalistic patterns, etchings and runes, overgrown nature, eye/teeth/nail variations, cracks, jewelry, head dresses, and elaborate melted distortions all pulling from the goop world and tripspace of LUCI. When the auctions close, the manual process begins, each painting handled with care, and these skulls will be claimable and dropped to all wallets randomly once the final amount of skulls is tabulated and painted. 

III. First Sacrifice

The Blueprint is the origin point of the Skulls of Luci. The source to a collection of 50 paintings, 49 of which are unique gifts redeemable solely by the collectors, collaborators, and every individual who placed an offer on my genesis series ( I. Birth of Luci, II. Lullabies for Isaac, and III. First Sacrifice). Each of these skulls is a unique painting tied to their signature on the ledger, claimable by them as a thank you for being there to support a chapter in my life in art. But of 50, one remains: The Blueprint Skull: the source where all of the other Skulls of Luci are born from. The Partition is formed … End Chapter 1 … These former husks / Vessels adorned with ancestry / Carry the code / Of shared memory // Though flayed and quartered / The bone is porous / Fertile grounds / Ripe for the return // New flesh grows / Once we learn how to die / Souls for the bankless / The tree decides // Power sown in urns and ashes / Eternity learned / in collective demise.

The Blueprint Skull

Sink below closed eyes

The vow is wasted on mimicked life

This ritual is not a visual

Bear Witness:

We may mark the mines for Lapis  
The hidden roots for Chanterelle  
But The Carmine Trail of mud and blood  
Leads to Infinite Altar

Offer the totems  
Each trinket and Golem

Every stacked body and burial mound

Gutted and scraped  
of the last of the maggots

Beetled clean, bleached in the sun

We proffer not just confession, but grimoires and fire  
The dyed meal we feast on, of forefallen authors  
Sima, beloved, we offer the promise  
To sculpt for The Kiln and dance forth another

Exit bare in hand, this Diorama  
The Game is about to begin

VIII. Infinite Ceremony

Climb the mountain / Take a deep breath for the audience / Now witness the Matriarchicon / The Undeniable / Interpretation is entertainment // See your bloodstream branch and course / Trace the the lattice as they sway / Touch the soil with tips of fingers / Dip in dirt to hold her grace / These echoes are novel, but tired and tried / Carved deep into tablets, caves, and wires / Palm the earth to feel creation / But dig dear Luci, be mocked and taken // Nails will break when met with marl / Blisters burst when clawed for answers / Darkened sut will fill the grooves / The network whispers: yes another // The maw opens for the weary exiles / Travelers of Wander tuckered from empire / In gum tree leaves grown children rest / Yet the pattern endures through steel and glass // The Tree is the tower, the bank, the law // A beautiful place to lie / But not yet.

VII.Wormfood

The Partition is formed … End Chapter 1 … These former husks / Vessels adorned with ancestry / Carry the code / Of shared memory // Though flayed and quartered / The bone is porous / Fertile grounds / Ripe for the return // New flesh grows / Once we learn how to die / Souls for the bankless / The tree decides // Power sown in urns and ashes / Eternity learned / in collective demise.

Emerge from Wander

The Skulls of Luci are a gift to the collectors, collaborators, & each individual who placed an offer on my genesis series: LUCI Chapter 1

There are 50 unique paintings, 49 can be seen here, but can also only be claimed by those individuals.

One remains: the origin point which each skull is based on: The Blueprint Skull on SuperRare.

The Partition is formed … End Chapter 1 … These former husks / Vessels adorned with ancestry / Carry the code / Of shared memory // Though flayed and quartered / The bone is porous / Fertile grounds / Ripe for the return // New flesh grows / Once we learn how to die / Souls for the bankless / The tree decides // Power sown in urns and ashes / Eternity learned / in collective demise.

Blood In The Aqueduct

Skulls of Luci

IX.

Wake up, Luci  
The spotlight shifts to others  
Climb 
and Observe

Name each creation  
Dominion demands it  
Or each is the other  
And The Nothing grows wiser

Walled Garden shadows cast the fangs of caves  
Coddled, veiled, or tortured, Bornstone is all we know  
Exit stage but play lives til lived  
To trace the rays and honor their emission

Below, The Collision, that cannot quiet  
The hyphal fuse lit by the victor  
Clustered nodes in avenue arrangements  
The swarm sorted parallel and one  
Etched tablets once brought down by prophets  
Bore choired covenants formed through consensus

Voices mined of value  
modeled for The Hive  
The Painless prompt away their growth  
Let them wear what we still hide

She holds us at the edge 
To prevent another fall  
If we are to die in threes for you  
The Game beckons for an offering

No Monument is built alone


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All deep-linked coordinates and Observations made atop "IX. The Monument Game" by collectors of Sam Spratt's first editioned work "Player" are preserved inside The trait data of the edition. A link between each Player to The Monument Game.

IX. The Monument Game

Sam Spratt 1/1

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Christie's IOU

Christies IOU

An Observation made within Sam Spratt's "IX. The Monument Game" - Within life's intricate dance, balance is foundational, nurturing formidable strength. Through balance, arises unyielding strength, infusing life with power. This strength begets an unwavering will, propelling progress. It's this will that fuels motion, purpose, and the world's equilibrium. Building bridges, even human ones, reinforces our need for unity, affirming that collaboration is key to sustaining balance.

Player #30/256

Editions of "Player" with Observations left atop Sam Spratt's The Monument Game.

An Observation made within Sam Spratt's "IX. The Monument Game" - Wake up, Luci. Is this progress? Is this the vision you had for us when we emerged from the muck?

For generations, we've gazed at the same sky, but somewhere in our past, we lost our identity

Masks, worn so long, mesh with flesh

Community, once corrupt becomes an inescapable hell

Monuments built, masked with deceit, memorialize humanity's darkness, our true light hidden behind those masks

Wake up, Luci. Take off your mask. And let the true beauty of humanity shine

Wake up, Luci…

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