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Art Therapy! Friday, P2 [Week 1]

May 11, 2012 09:29

Friday morning, there was coffee and cookies supplied. Don’t get too used to that, kids. The enthusiasm would probably wear off just a little as the term went on. The desks were arranged in a circle and on each one students would find an A5 sketchpadAngela would be found sitting on one of the desks, facing them all. "So welcome to Art Therapy." She ( Read more... )

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Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 08:32:11 UTC

"Name, year, some random fact about you -- bonus points if it’s interesting -- and the last artistic thing that you did."

[[ feel free to ping off each other, I’ll be slow until I get out of work ]]

Re: Intros! yinandyango May 11 2012, 12:45:39 UTC

Fawn had been spending a little bit of time fondling and admiring the notebook, which seemed to her to have some sort of strange power for all the things that would be captured inside of it through the weeks, and she couldn't wait to start covering its pages with all sorts of dark and wonderful thoughts, so when it came around to her turn to introduce herself, there was a faint smile on her face. She kept her head slightly down as she talked, though, her voice quiet.

"I'm Fawn Farrell," she offered, speaking as thought to the desk or her new sketchbook. "I'm going to be a freshman, and the last artistic thing I did, I guess, was playing my harmonica."

Yes, she skipped the random fact about you part, because she believe that anything interesting about her was best kept a secret, and beyond that, there wasn't much interesting at all.

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 17:25:54 UTC

"Oh, nice." That was one you didn't hear every day. It almost covered the 'random fact' part too. "Did you teach yourself that?"

Re: Intros! yinandyango May 11 2012, 23:30:58 UTC

A faint hint of a smile managed to surface on Fawn's face, though it was a little wry. She figured the interest that Ms. Monte--Angela was feigning was just to be nice. "Kind of," she said, shrugging her shoulder. "My whole family plays instruments."

And wound up with the harmonica and drums because she was terrible at everything else.

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 23:47:55 UTC

"My dad's musical," Angela offered. "It's a gene that did not make it to me." But art and music, they used similar parts of the brain, or so she'd been told.

"Do you enjoy it?" It was possible, that it was something she did purely because her family's musical tendencies nudged her into it, after all.

Re: Intros! yinandyango May 11 2012, 23:51:45 UTC

If Fawn were to be truthful and open in this conversation, she probably would have told Angela all about how the only time she truly felt free, the only time she felt she could ever express herself, it would be when she was holding a pencil to paper or her harmonica to her lips. That she felt alive and powerful and nothing could hold her back.

But of course she wasn't going to be. She just shrugged her shoulders and looked down toward her feet. "It's okay, I guess."

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 12 2012, 12:22:46 UTC

Maybe by the end of the seven weeks, she would get to that. You never knew.

Angela smiled. "I will take okay over 'hell no'," she decided. "I hope you enjoy the class, sweetie."

Re: Intros! upmysleeve May 11 2012, 13:30:29 UTC

Ace? Not appreciative of somebody's clearly-deficient sense of humour.

"Ace, I don't get your numbering system at all but my papers say junior, I got expelled from my last school, and the last artistic thing I did was blow up the art room at my last school."

She'd leave them to draw their own conclusions about the connections between items three and four.

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 17:34:00 UTC

Riiiight. "Well that's encouraging." It wasn't, but Angela said it with a smile anyway. "... On purpose or by mistake?" Since Ace was open about that little tidbit, she was going to go right ahead and ask.

Re: Intros! upmysleeve May 11 2012, 17:52:01 UTC

Ace had to consider both the actual answer to that and how much of it she was willing to give. "I... wasn't specifically targeting the art room? It just happened to be the nearest place to toss the nitroglycerin at the time."

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 18:17:33 UTC

"I think I'm obligated as a teacher here to tell you to avoid throwing nitroglycerine around..." Because, yeah. "Also that the music room is right next door, and I don't think it gets used much."

So you know, if the situation came up again? Not in her classroom, please.

Re: Intros! upmysleeve May 11 2012, 18:31:49 UTC

Way to send mixed signals, Montenegro!

"So noted. But don't worry." Worry, Angela. "I don't use nitro anymore." Not plain nitro.

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 18:55:45 UTC

Hey, around here, you could not discount the possibility of accidental or neccessary nitro. She was just saying if...

She was not going to ask, she was just not going to ask. "Good for you, sweetie. We'll replace explosions with art is that's all right?"

Re: Intros! upmysleeve May 11 2012, 19:22:11 UTC

Ace slumped down a bit and gave a gloomy, if resigned, sigh. "See, nobody ever gets how explosions are art."

Re: Intros! flashesforinfo May 11 2012, 19:48:34 UTC

"Less destructive, less likely to get you arrested art," Angela amended. If an unmade bed counted as art because a few people thought it was, why couldn't explosions be if Ace thought so.

Re: Intros! hurtingzeebo May 11 2012, 13:54:58 UTC

"Sam Puckett," said Sam. "I'm a senior." Screw that 'going to be' crap, the old seniors were gone, so she was totally a senior now. "I can knock out a trucker with a carton of milk, and earlier this week, I did some finger painting."

By which she meant she'd painted a portrait of a finger.

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