The Monument Game Exhibition in Venice, Italy

The Monument Game’s initial digital conception was built like a campfire. The central labyrinthine 1/1 served as the flame: the object of attention, the brightest light where stories and lore are told-where energy is spent and generated. The Skulls of Luci and The Council represented the objects of desire: the people and leaders gathered around the light, sharing their stories with each other-creating a force when bonded, to hold the light and draw in others from the dark. A widened circle of people through the editioned work “Player”, the 256 Players, who pointed all of their energy, attention, and observations at the 1/1: the fire, competed as storytellers for the 3 seats closer to the flame… to join The Council.

This game rewarded curiosity and creative thinking, asking people to create the varnish to a digital painting. A coat of chaotic and unpredictable communal resin made from an offering of people's unfiltered thoughts: a little piece of themselves-bonding all collectors to their edition, all editions to the 1/1, with the Skulls forming the energy circuit between them. A record not just of the origin point and destination for a piece of digital artwork, but of collective reflection and competition-linking The Monument Game, The Skulls of Luci, and the players together in a connected system of story, community, and play. The Monument Game is an extraction of the world as seen by Spratt, but perhaps the only thing that could ever make it different is you. To play The Monument Game is to give a piece of yourself to the painting. The chaos variable of storytelling is how your own life has altered how you see.

The game consisted of 4 main pillars:

The 4 Pillars Of The Monument Game

1. The Game:  An interactive competition where holders of The Ticket: "Player" can explore, Observe, and compete by leaving Observations atop the 1/1 painting "IX. The Monument Game".

2. The Painting:  A massive and detailed 1/1 artwork on auction filled with hundreds of stories titled "IX. The Monument Game".

3. The Ticket:  My first editioned work titled "Player" (Edition Size: 256). Each ticket of "Player" begins as an entry to compete for The Reward by leaving a written Observation of what the collector finds atop the 1/1 "IX. The Monument Game." At the close of The game and auction, all tickets with corresponding Observations are minted as editions of "Player." Their Observations will be voted on by The Council of Luci.

4. The Reward:  The Council of Luci (a cadre of my closest collectors and some of the best people in this space) collectively served as the voting body to decide the 3 most observant Players to win The Monument Game. The 3 winners sacrificed their "Player" edition with its winning Observation for a seat on The Council by claiming 1 of the 3 remaining Skulls of Luci.