The seven
Each one sealed, slabbed and signed in gold. You don’t pick her. When your name is drawn, the Vortex chooses which of these finds you — and shows you, right then. What you see is what arrives.
Seven came back through.
Then never again.
There is a place I go when I paint. I don’t have a better name for it than the Love Vortex. It’s the pull I feel when a face arrives before I’ve drawn it — eyes first, always — and the only job is to stay in the current long enough to catch her. For years I went there at night, on a screen, in the dark, layer over layer until the glow was right. The paintings stayed behind the glass. I always wanted to hold them.
So I brought seven of them back through. Each is printed as a museum-grade giclée on heavy archival paper, and then I finish it by hand — the embellishment that makes it a one-of-one — sign it in gold, stamp it, seal it and slab it in acrylic so the light stays exactly as it was the night it arrived. Certified in your name. Seven. I won’t make these again.
Choose 1–5.
Names are drawn; pieces find their collectors.
Which of the seven is yours is not up to you. It’s revealed the moment your name comes up.
The Vortex chose for
The rules, in full
- Members only. Claiming a spot takes a free account and a card on file; nothing is charged unless a piece is yours.
- One spot per person, for up to five pieces. You can always ask for more, up to five.
- Every evening at 5 PM Pacific, every open spot is drawn in random order and filled, up to its number, while pieces remain. There is no nightly cap.
- When the names outnumber the pieces, the order of the draw decides. A partly served spot stays in for the rest.
- You don’t choose the piece. When your name is drawn, one of the remaining pieces is chosen for you at random by the draw, and revealed to you that moment.
- $500 per piece, to the card on file, when your name comes up. Shipping is free worldwide; customs and duties are the collector’s.
- A card that doesn’t go through hands the piece to the next name that evening; fix the card and you’re back in the next draw.
- All sales are final. Certificates are issued in the collector’s name.