In the Mode of Masters
...this was followed by the Astral Period, whose founding members railed against the perfection and studied nature of the Classical Period with unbridled colours, porous borders between segments, and unconventional materials like blood on stone, hair sewn into paper, and chalk on humanoid skin. The first discernible piece of Astral Art was created by Wilhelmina Oates who, it was said, returned to the Material Plane after a lifetime spent on the Astral Plane, only to find that no time at all had passed. She leveraged her lifetime of wisdom to spearhead this new mode of art which, though rejected at first by critics, soon heralded a new era of creation across the realm.