Log:The Muse Silent Art Auction
The Muse Silent Art Auction
OOC Date: February 8, 2016 (Optional)
Location: Art Gallery
Participants: Shadow Syndicate
There are several works of fine art on display at the silent auction. Bids should be paged to Rheisa, as often as you want to increase them, and updates will be paged back to interested parties. When things start wrapping up and people get sleepy, she will announce for final bids to be made, then inform the winners!
1) Work by Zura Icona
The painting would fit into a decent 4-square meter frame, if it were itself a square. Alas, it is not. Curvaceous and cresting to the left, the wavy canvas is itself in the vague form of a tree. A myriad of vivid colors squiggle in formation of the bark, branches, and tendrils of attention-snagging leaves. If one peers very closely, they might see that many of the overlapping squiggling smears of color resemble the letter ‘S’. In the tree’s center, warped into the flow of its curves, is an abstract, womanly form embracing several smaller versions of itself. The paint is also layered thickly, creating a more 3D textural effect.
Starting bid - 300 credits (page Rheisa with your bid(s))
A note about the artist is scripted below on a small placard, with an image of the Wroonian woman’s face. She’s a painter and performance artist, it’d seem. The name of this painting is listed as “Life” and claims to be inspired by the mission of this charity event.
2) Work by Qo
This functional art piece can serve as a small side table – either free-standing or bolted permanently in place on board a ship. It is a mish-mash of salvaged metals. Some parts may still be identifiable despite the hammering and welding. Bits of droid chrome, rusted tools, and hammered bits of hull paneling are all bent and sculpted together artfully to create a three-legged stool/seat/table that stands just a meter high. The feet are pre-drilled to accommodate floor bolts.
Starting bid - 250 credits
A note about the artist is scripted below on a small placard, with an image of a scruffy Meerian man's face. He doesn't appear happy to be documented. It reads - "You've seen me and my scrap speeder selling repurposed junk allover the streets of Nar...I guess this makes it art."
3) Work by Veela Pritik
A very ornate necklace made from invisi-wire and luminescent, glass beads, gives the illusion that the model neck and décolletage is bejeweled by pristine, silvery-blue tears of the sky. The necklace is four-tiered and designed to drape at a rightward angle across the chest, with the last tier cresting just over and around the top of the breast. The first strand contains just one, small central bead to rest in the hollow of the throat. Below it are strung larger, droplet-shaped beads spaced by tiny ones matching the above. The third tier consists of the same whereas the fourth has one central, larger pendant, flanked by tiny teardrops.
There are also matching ear rings.
Starting bid - 300 credits
The artist note beneath reads "I'm with Qo," and features a warmly smiling Mirialan woman.
4) Work by Tigri K'ani
This diminutive piece stands just 1.2 millimeters tall and barely perceivable by the naked eye, but that is what makes it so awe-worthy. It is sculpted from Azurite and sits atop a smooth, mica pedestal. A magnifying lens is positioned so as to make every detail easily viewed by passing onlookers. It is shaped into an elaborate tree, whose branches are laden with fruit. A symbol of fertility – a strange thing to interpret, perhaps, for one whose species has evolved beyond natural reproduction.
Starting bid - 750 credits
A note about the artist is scripted below, identifying her as Tigri K’ani – a renown, Bith crystal-synthesizer and micro-sculptor. Some of her more famous pieces are enlarged thousands of times by holographic projection, crafted on the micro-meter scale using laser implements. This one though is at least identifiable without magnification, if one leans in closely.
5) Work by Rheisa Dirleel
This piece is actually made of two separate, ‘misshapen’ pots. Each clay pot would have been quite spherical in shape, if not for the squiggled, crescent-shaped notches cut into each – mirror images of the other. One pot is black as ink, coated with a faint, sparkling pigment. The other is a color not so different from herself, reminiscent of sunrises and sets. Each pot has a narrow-necked, branching spout that curls off to opposing directions. When the two are placed together, the notches combine to form a rough, humanoid silhouette.
Starting bid - 100 credits
A note about the artist below simply reads "Rheisa Dirleel, Curator of art, The Muse Art Gallery" Work titled - "The Unity of Daark and Sa'aan."
