Commedia
Commedia isn’t really a place, but an idea. Well, it’s not really an idea, but a lot of ideas, or maybe even every idea, or maybe it’s the idea of how every idea interacts with every other idea. Maybe it is a place, after all, or the idea of a place? Nobody seems to be quite sure, but sometimes its residents have the gall to break your immersion and ask you if you have any idea. Other times, when they break your immersion, they tell you that they’re sure that you have no idea.
This Verse celebrates the joy inherent in communication, the happy shock of the unexpected, the timing of the setup and the delivery of the punchline. Its physical features can take any shape, so long as they are relevant to the point at hand; its citizens are equally diverse. One persistent feature of Commedia’s landscape, fittingly occupying the highest elevation, is the headquarters and distribution center of the ACME corporation.
The advent of the internet in our world has given the Verse much greater purchase than in the old days when it had to rely on the printing press or occupy the fleeting moments of a performance. Dank Meme Stashes abound in the 21st century, and Commedia couldn’t be happier about it. If a guy with a newspaper on his head tells you his Halloween costume is “Newspaper Head Man,” you should probably give him some candy. He’s from Commedia.
Commedia isn’t really a place, but an idea. Well, it’s not really an idea, but a lot of ideas, or maybe even every idea, or maybe it’s the idea of how every idea interacts with every other idea. Maybe it is a place, after all, or the idea of a place? Nobody seems to be quite sure, but sometimes its residents have the gall to break your immersion and ask you if you have any idea. Other times, when they break your immersion, they tell you that they’re sure that you have no idea.
This Verse celebrates the joy inherent in communication, the happy shock of the unexpected, the timing of the setup and the delivery of the punchline. Its physical features can take any shape, so long as they are relevant to the point at hand; its citizens are equally diverse. One persistent feature of Commedia’s landscape, fittingly occupying the highest elevation, is the headquarters and distribution center of the ACME corporation.
The advent of the internet in our world has given the Verse much greater purchase than in the old days when it had to rely on the printing press or occupy the fleeting moments of a performance. Dank Meme Stashes abound in the 21st century, and Commedia couldn’t be happier about it. If a guy with a newspaper on his head tells you his Halloween costume is “Newspaper Head Man,” you should probably give him some candy. He’s from Commedia.
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Commedia
Tokens
- 1 of 1, sold by auction
- Playable in Verses TCG as "full art" style card
- Holders will receive airdrops of derivative card editions as they are minted
Bitey
Brian Snoddy has given this gouache 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 Bitey 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 was an image created for a card game about CRYPTIDS that was never finished or released. It is a painting of the mysterious creature called “The Chupacabra”, which means goat sucker. This creature has been reported to have been seen all over Latin America and Puerto Rico. The first public mention of this creature in the USA was on the TV series Bonanza, which ran from 1959 to 1973.
Tod
Drew Tucker has given this oil 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 Tod 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 created from a drawing my son had made for me when he was 5 years old.
Twiddling fingers,
Top hat at the ready,
Mississippi showboats at every bend…
Story Mechanics
Ken Meyer Jr. has given this mixed media 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 Story Mechanics 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 was done for a school project when I went back to finish my degree at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I had a photo for a long time, grabbed from a newspaper ad. I had always thought it would be a fun one to paint and when given the opportunity in one of my painting classes, I decided it was time. I’ve always enjoyed painting older faces with lots of expression.
Sarcasdrake
Pat morrissey-Lewis has given this digital illustration 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 Sarcasdrake that will ever be made.
Ownership Benefits:
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:
Sarcasdrake is a digital piece done as a submission for a dragon book. I’ve often wondered about tiny dragons and baby dragons, curious if they were always fierce and how they began to create their hoards. Did they rob and pillage or slowly collect over time? This little baby dragon found a shiny coin and immediately sat upon it to guard in the coming years like those who came before him.
m3ta1-11
Brenda Massocks has given this mixed-media sculpture 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 m3ta1-11 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:
m3ta1-11 was a breakthrough piece for me, as it was the first time I diverged from strictly found objects and used additive sculpting to incorporate an element which was important enough to the concept to bring forth from my imagination (the human skull with horns).
While working on this piece I was focusing on how to balance that which makes us human (empathy & compassion) against the need to trudge forward despite the ebbing and flowing of whatever is occurring within us as emotional beings. Emotional connections, while generally considered a good thing, when excessively hyper-focused on can become oppressive. This one reminds me of the need for the pendulum to swing the opposite direction, (those parts of us which function outside of or despite our fundamental connections or emotional wounds), before finding it’s center. I felt with this piece I had achieved an image which may be provocative to the viewer while still maintaining some ambiguity and room for others to fill it with their own stories.
Regardless of medium, the art that I love most draws me in with alluring appeal while simultaneously doing something to repel me. It is confusing and contradictory. I’m intrigued by dichotomies which mirror those found in people and our shared human condition. These things are infinitely complex and at the same time base and primal; depending on your perspective and how you need to see things they can be both, or one or neither. That is what this piece is about to me.
- Limited to 100 cards
- Fixed price of 100 XTZ
- Playable in Verses TCG as "full art" style card
- Holders will receive airdrops of derivative card editions as they are minted
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