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ѕarιѕѕa "noт тoday, ѕaтan" тнeron ([personal profile] magnitudes) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-12-17 02:45 pm

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( Ah, it’s a heartwarming holiday scene, viewers. Sarissa, lounging on a couch, somehow inexplicably still with severe tank top tanlines despite a) it being winter and b) her wearing a tank top, which surely should theoretically make the tanlines less apparent. Not today, apparently. It reads “Sorry for the thing I said when I was hungry,” but perhaps “Sorry for what I’m about to say now I’m drunk” would be more fitting. She’s got a neon curly straw sticking out of a bottle of bourbon, and a cocktail umbrella tucked behind her ear, and appears to be wearing tropical board shorts. It’s just that kind of day. Or night. Whatever.

Sitting next to her is Pablo, who is wearing a striped cardigan, black shorts, and fiddling with his bangs and a straightening iron until he notices that Sarissa is recording. He frees his hair and sets the iron aside, picking up instead his own drink of choice (non-alcoholic; it's a capri-sun pouch) so he can more easily listen. )


Okay, but like. Okay, no, sorry, but if you think about any of the stuff that all of us across all our bloody worlds have gotta have in common, it’s art, yeah? Like— creativity. Art and poems and music, the expression of everything that makes us who we are given some kinda solid shape. Whether its colours or melodies or whatever form we gotta grab and twist about, it’s expressions of the world and how we understand it, right? It’s a way to know that we’re not going out of our bloody minds, because there’s thing element that we can understand and connect with, and it links us to other people. It’s why people got all fired up about the Spice Girls, a while back.

( That isn’t actually what happened, Sarissa, but sure. Go with that. ) And Pablo here, he’s an artist. Makes the world make sense with colours. Everything is colours and— and texture. It’s stories all layered up and up, kind of like people. We’re all hundreds of thousands of stories all layered together and then laid out.

What? Oh, uh...

( Pablo seems to not know what to say about that, given his silence, though if he feels put on the spot it doesn't show on his face. He starts to shake his head, but then instead opts to say: )

Right. Well you know, I don't know if it even has to exactly make sense, if like... we can still look at it and feel something, because either somehow we do understand it, on the level of like... uh... ( He gestures circularly over his head, glancing in Sarissa's direction for a moment but then upward. How to say it? ) You know, intuitively, even if we don't know why, or what anything really means. Or we don't understand but try to, or-- sometimes people don't want to. It all depends. But, uh-- yeah, it's still a little bit of everything and everyone we've ever known, too. Like stories.

( He stops talking and looks back over at Sarissa. )

Or a jigsaw puzzle. Or, uh— there’s this art, in Japan? Kint— ah, shit. Kintsuko...roi? It’s um, it’s like the to do with change and journeys and things gathering more meaning. I guess. I mean technically it’s about repairing broken stuff with gold lacquer, but it’s like an extra layer? Like a new addition to the story. Somethings not less perfect for being broken, and it doesn’t lose something. It gains it? I don’t know, make that a metaphor, if you wanna. People and art fit together. ( She grins, a bit ridiculously. ) And if they don’t, we can glue ‘em together with gold lacquer. It could get very Klimpt. Or Kahlo.

( Sarissa frowns, then, as she delicately sips her bourbon. ) Does anyone else do that? Like finding ways to express the way they understand things more tangibly? Like an enigma machine for your thoughts?
pummelgranite: (she on a diet)

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[personal profile] pummelgranite 2016-12-17 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
That sorta sounds like what all art's for, innit it? A way to communicate something that can't be expressed any other way.
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[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-17 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pablo feels hesitant to say anything else on the subject given that it's not his drunk post and he doesn't consider himself any kind of authority, but-- well, he's involved anyway. And it's interesting to hear what people say. ]

That's what I think too, at least that's all I've ever really known it to be. You know, more language than um, like... passion. [ He pauses, then adds: ] Even though there's usually still some passion involved.
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[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-17 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
And what if we have that common denominator for a reason? What if it is us -- if we are the art?
notsheepish: (Who is Victoria? What is her secret?)

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[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...what?

[Somebody had to be the first to ask, right?]
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[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Excuse you. She is no white knight! Just... friends with a few of them.]

Yeah, maybe not. Since I think a lot of that just kinda flew over my head.
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[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Again, there is confusion, though this one is more about the (perceived?) attitude there. Ruby is... admittedly slightly uncomfortable and unsure where she stands with Sarissa, but she doesn't have any ill will toward her.]

Uh. I mean, it's not really my thing, but I don't have anything against it either?

I even know the one you're talking about, yeah.

[She didn't know that's what it's called or who painted it, but it's famous enough that even she's seen it before.]
coppelganger: (the him)

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[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-17 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
wow.

[ Because, really, what do you say to that? It's just like listening to Cosima when she goes off on a science tangent, only worse, because it's an art tangent, and she doesn't even have Felix around to explain and/or judge with her.

Then, she shoots of a private text to Sarissa: ]


hey, back off a bit, yeah?
coppelganger: (play to win)

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[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-17 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, since she's occupied, you wanna come over later?
notsheepish: (Did he just use a paint bucket?)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slowly:] Yeah, I guess that makes sense... [The part about sharp lines and jagged corners seeming more jarring at least.]

It seems like a pretty complicated way to get something across though, one that wouldn't be hard for someone to misunderstand. Especially someone who hasn't put a lot of thought into this kind of thing before.

[She raises a hand into frame.]
notsheepish: (I always thought it should be bigger.)

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[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi to you too.

[She laughs quietly.]

I could probably be convinced. What did you have in mind?
notsheepish: (You're either lying or you're lying.)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a bit of a pause while she tries to find the right words.]

Yeah, maybe everybody feels something, but it can't always be the same thing just because they saw the same painting. Like, if I just looked at the one we were talking about out of the blue, maybe the feeling he was trying to get across wouldn't be the one I read from it.

So would that mean I... did it wrong or something? And I guess if I didn't, and there is no right or wrong, then why try to get across a specific feeling or whatever that way at all?
coppelganger: (chosen time)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-17 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
you know exactly what i'm talking about
coppelganger: (alley cat)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-17 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm... let's start with not talking about art?
notsheepish: (Love that they're taking their time.)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-17 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, really? Well, don't you know how to show a girl a good time.
slightlyoffchilt: (Semiotic.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-17 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He furrowed his brow, catching that unfamiliar grin.]

Do I personally think that? No, no -- I would consider some people to be art. [Always the elitist.] Some are artists, some are art, and some are audience.
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