Prompt 171, Stone, "But Is It Art?"
Title: But Is It Art?
Author: seta_suzume
Series: manga/Brotherhood
Word Count:
Rating: G
Characters: Alex Louis Armstrong & Elysia Hughes
Summary: Elysia knows all sorts of people. One is something of a sculptor.
Warnings: set in the future, but no real spoilers
He molds the rock with energy and thought and barely a touch of his hands, although the meeting of stone and metal he makes is scarcely gentle. Have you ever seen a man (and a giant of a man at that) punch a block of marble? And for the sake of making art? It is an astonishing thing and Professor Lagerberg looks about as proud as if he were the sculptor himself - or maybe me, since I'm the one who brought him.
"Interview an artist," the professor had said, "Bring them to class." It was an easy assignment for me. I knew there was practically no reason Uncle Alex would decline to come, not only to talk, but to make art in front of us.
"I would be honored to," he'd beamed at my request, "Tell your teacher not to worry- I will bring my own materials." (At that weight, who else could?)
"It's a talent, all right," that snooty Jonathon remarks, "But is it art?"
Does he always have to ruin things? I grit my teeth hoping that Uncle Alex didn't catch his comments.
"Alchemy's an art as much as anything done with a hammer and chisel," Professor Lagerberg argues, saving me the trouble. "And that," he sweeps his hand in a wide wave, taking in the whole of what has become a pale gray man drawing his arm back to hurl a discus, "Is definitely art."
Author: seta_suzume
Series: manga/Brotherhood
Word Count:
Rating: G
Characters: Alex Louis Armstrong & Elysia Hughes
Summary: Elysia knows all sorts of people. One is something of a sculptor.
Warnings: set in the future, but no real spoilers
He molds the rock with energy and thought and barely a touch of his hands, although the meeting of stone and metal he makes is scarcely gentle. Have you ever seen a man (and a giant of a man at that) punch a block of marble? And for the sake of making art? It is an astonishing thing and Professor Lagerberg looks about as proud as if he were the sculptor himself - or maybe me, since I'm the one who brought him.
"Interview an artist," the professor had said, "Bring them to class." It was an easy assignment for me. I knew there was practically no reason Uncle Alex would decline to come, not only to talk, but to make art in front of us.
"I would be honored to," he'd beamed at my request, "Tell your teacher not to worry- I will bring my own materials." (At that weight, who else could?)
"It's a talent, all right," that snooty Jonathon remarks, "But is it art?"
Does he always have to ruin things? I grit my teeth hoping that Uncle Alex didn't catch his comments.
"Alchemy's an art as much as anything done with a hammer and chisel," Professor Lagerberg argues, saving me the trouble. "And that," he sweeps his hand in a wide wave, taking in the whole of what has become a pale gray man drawing his arm back to hurl a discus, "Is definitely art."