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Egg Hatching Day!

1,000 unique eggs. 1,000 1/1 pets.

Feed your pets and keep them alive!

You only need to feed your pet once a week. But be careful: if you neglect your pet for more than 7 days, it will disappear forever.

Take care of your pet. Don't let it disappear.

WTF is going on?
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Still here. Still collecting.

Thank you, Jpegz, for adding me to the HONORARIES!

Really appreciate it.

Did you guys get allowlisted?

I'm thinking of giving away one Jpegz.
Drop your wallets below! 👇

You could lose a Sam Spratt auction and still receive an artwork.

That was one of the seeds of the Skulls of Luci.

Not just a prize for the winning wallet.

A record that someone had shown up.

October 2021.

Spratt introduced Luci, an unfolding story told through digital paintings.

Alongside the auctions, he created Skull artworks for unique bidders.

In his own account, the idea began as a thank-you.

Auction histories were fleeting.
Participation could disappear behind the final price.

The Skulls gave that participation another form.

Then the idea grew beyond the auction.

August 2023.

Spratt introduced "IX. The Monument Game."

One 1/1 painting.
A Player edition of 256.
Three Skulls available as rewards.

The task wasn't simply to buy and wait.

Players explored the painting and left an observation.

A few sentences.
A reading of a scene.
Something they noticed and chose to name.

The Council of Luci, a circle of collectors, would judge the observations.

Three selected players would receive a Skull and the opportunity to join the Council.

Money bought access to participate.

But the winning criterion was what a player saw and expressed.

That distinction matters.

Collectors weren't repainting Spratt's image.

They were adding a communal layer of interpretation around it.

The artwork had an author.

Its meaning could gather more voices.

We spend so much time asking whether collectors support artists.