I’ve only seen one of Ajinos paintings myself and no thank you. I didn’t understand it all, a single impossibly thin black line in field of greys. I’m not sure what was on t’other side of that line, but I’m sure glad Ajino painted it shut.
Trophy: Ajino the Debauched Painter
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Ajino’s first well-paying commission was said to be the portrait of the Lord’s son in his hometown. The child died while the piece was being finished and it is said that Ajino’s painted the child’s soul into the piece. Anyone who looks upon the painting weeks uncontrollably.
Ajino’s “Still Life” period will make even the most grizzled veteran turn his stomach. Taking the forma bit too literally, Ajino painted a long series of corpses in various states of decay and dismemberment. The pieces are said to have been destroyed by religious authorities for obscenity, but a hidden original would make a fine prize for the savvy collector.
While best known for his paintings, Ajino also made a collection of animal and beast sculptures. His animals are particularly terrifying because he exaggerated and stretched their proportions to lengthen limbs, ears, fangs, and claws.
Ajino’s abstract work was underrated and far ahead of its time and much of it was destroyed or lost to time. The few pieces that remain are so evocative that they can incite furious debates among critics and historians. There
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It is said that Ajino did not paint any the works for which he is credited—that during every new moon, in a location now lost, he would find them in a circle of runestones.
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The Black Sun. Ajino’s Black Sun was painted during a solar eclipse, and is a markedly restrained example of the debauched painter’s late period. A black circle on cream-coloured canvas, it is said that if one looks at the middle of the circle and allows their eyes to lose focus, the unmarked surround of the ecliptic centre will begin to teem and writhe with a myriad of strange wonders.
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The dealer insists that this is indeed a genuine Ajino, but cautions against pulling back the cloth hanging over it. This is Ajino’s last and most perfect portrait; Portrait of the Viewer, Final. Using a strange reflective pigment Ajino painted, a mirror; a portrait that always reflects the viewer as they wish to be seen. The reflections are beautiful and perfect, but piercing, hyperreal, and hungry.
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The Echoes of the Forest is a mysterious and extremely elusive painting. It’s safely guarded in a room inside a mansion that belongs to a really wealthy lady. Nobles and rich people pay incredible amounts of gold to bring gifts during the woman’s exclusive receptions with hopes that she would be satisfied by the offerings and thus deciding to invite her guests in the painting room. The cost for seeing this piece of art is exorbitant, but it’s not just a stupid whim of status-obsessed people. It’s said that the effects of watching the masterwork make it worth every coin.