Blank Page Art Club, Art Classroom, Monday 2/16 (After Classes)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

It wasn't by intention or design that Katchoo made it down before everyone else did this week, unless you meant by the intention and design of a cute and innocuous little clock who'd pestered her and pestered her until she headed down just to find that she was the first one there.

With a shrug, she got all the supplies out, set up an easel for herself in the corner, and got to work after putting up a sign that read:

Georgia O'Keefe had flowers. What's your metaphor?

It wasn't really a discussion question. It was just sort of there -- she wanted to see if the dirty implications hadn't occurred to anyone yet, and how they'd react.

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Chat/Mingle

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo's given in to the inevitability of other people being social.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela was one of the inevitably sociable people, and feeling far more like that this week than she had been last time around.

She was around and picking at a pack of Skittles, and possibly also giving some thought to metaphors.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Peyton said with a smile. She was looking maybe a little smug.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Heeey to you too," Angela replied, noting that smugness with a slight raised eyebrow.

"What are you looking so smirky about?"

Might as well get the question straight out there.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Oh, am I looking smirky?" Peyton asked innocently.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Yes, yes you are," Angela replied with a good measure of amusement. "So spill. You have a good weekend?"

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh. Very nice, actually," Peyton said with the smirk back just a litlle more.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, go you," she said brightly. "With Dean?" Worth checking, just in case.

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[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir had no idea who Georgia O'Keefe was, or what her metaphor might be, but he supposed flowers would be a nice subject for something.

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal gave a slight snort at the prompt. In that vein of things, it wasn't metaphor he preferred to work with so much as it was anonymity. As he thought about it a little, though, he realized he was surprisingly literal when it came to his artistic pursuits.

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire smiled an odd sort of smile when she realized what her answer to the question had to be.

"Death," she announced. "Death is my metaphor."

... and she wondered why people thought she was morbid.

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal told himself he should have kept that laughing grin off his face, but he couldn't help it. Claire was just adorable when she was being so...macabre.

"For what?" he asked, smirking.

And maybe blushing a little bit, too, because, come on. Geogria O'Keefe and metaphors, here.

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

It took Claire a second to answer because his smirk required she smile back at him, and it was probably so cute everyone else in the room wanted to puke.

"For, like, everything," she said, looking at her shoes because this was too sincere to really share with everyone. "If you see how somebody dies, what their funeral is like, you see how they lived. It's like this bizarre little snapshot of everything else."

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Intent on mostly just teasing, Cal was a little surprised at the simple sort of truthfulness to the way Claire answered, but pleasantly so. His smirk softened a little, losing some of its cocky sharpness. "Not necessarily," he offered, lightly debating. "I mean, my dad had a full on Greek Orthodox funeral, and he was one of the least religious people I know."

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire considered that, nodding as she revised. "Maybe more how your community sees you, than who you really were," she tried. "But it's the one thing that happens to everybody, right? It has to mean something."

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"But you have to have been born to die," Cal offered. "So maybe that's my metaphor just to counter out yours."

It wasn't; his metaphor, he decided, was red, but he wasn't going to say that. Birth worked; he'd been born twice. And it was ironic, because it was something he'd never be able to create.

Art was deep, man.

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[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Which aspect?" Alice asked, intrigued. "Dying itself, the moment of death, or its aftermath?"

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire was mostly just talking to talk; it took her a second to refocus on Alice. "Aftermath," she finally said, blinking just a little. "My family runs a funeral home. I've kind of thought a lot about dead bodies."

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[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I would imagine, in that regard," Alice nodded calmly. "And mortality, one would expect. You would only see the rawness of grief, and not its resolution. Unless funerals do help with that; I've heard conflicting stories."

She had missed her family's funerals; she could never decide if she regretted that or not.

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"It depends on who you are," Claire said. "My oldest brother threw a fit at our dad's funeral, 'cause he thought it was all artificial. But I think seeing it helped my mom." She frowned a little. "Not the Nate having a fit part."

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[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Did it help you?" Alice asked. She quickly shook her head. "Forgive me, that might be a terribly personal thing to ask."

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia wouldn't be able to tell you what a metaphor was if you put a gun to her head, so she was ignoring the question thing.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka smirked at the group. "I got your metaphor right HERE, baby."

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[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Chess," Alice said simply. "Or playing cards. The two cover a nice range of situations."

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[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Fire is my metaphor."