A Canvas For Eternity

LEAD - Corfaisus

DESIGN - Illybeans, Vandriette

A modest submission to the Tim Tam Slam Jam of 2019...

Death - we must all face it at some point. Some of us fear it, others embrace it. Others, still, feel neither one nor the other, yet are still troubled when time draws short. "What will I leave behind?" "What is my legacy?"

"Did I accomplish all that I wanted to do?"

Leonardo da Vinci surely felt these things as he lay in his bed during the final days of his life... but he was not alone. Calling for a priest to see to his soul and his pupil, Francesco Melzi, to his works, the ailing Leonardo - through bouts of consciousness and unconsciousness - makes an astounding revelation. "I wish my works destroyed." His pupil is mortified at his master's request and simply cannot comprehend why his life's work should be lost... but he has his reasons, and they are air-tight.

Or are they?

In these last five days, you will take on the role of Francesco Melzi as you try to convince your master, the soon-to-be-late Leonardo da Vinci, that his brilliance should be preserved, not destroyed - to be the inspiration to the world for generations as he has inspired his pupil. It is up to you to succeed and him to decide - not just for yourselves but for the world.

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."