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#11: wheel of fortune (good luck, karma, life cycles, destiny, a turning point)
{ `수정 ; high noon, watercolor mood: she stares and does nothing but, just as an art enthusiast would upon the lined displays inside of an art gallery, or as a lover should their significant other at the break of dawn whilst they lie atop a dented mattress and beneath cotton sheets, daylight washing the murky walls;
she stares until she realizes, with exposed embarrassments, the long-forgotten days of springtime and adolescence, of clasped hands betwixt frost and uncut grass,
of warm smiles, bare feet, the smell of lilies in her hair,
of fleeting eyes toing and froing between the fence,
( naiveté and curiosity juxtaposed. )
she feels compelled to speak, yet is obliged to stay in her seat. the hour passes, air quiet, her fingers along with those of everyone else in the room smeared with lead, moving constantly as the instructor roams freely.
bemused. all the while, she struggles, finds him almost too difficult to replicate on paper.
( you’ve put in a lot of detail on his face, her art teacher says, peering over her shoulder,
his mouth, especially. how long did you spend on his mouth?
not long, she responds. soojung hopes he doesn’t hear. )
tipped paint, airbrushed, overfamiliar: an hour felt almost like three. she waits for the room to empty and takes the opportunity to walk near, sketchbook in her palms, her heart inside of her throat and his likeness marking coarse paper.
overcuriosity is overwhelming.
she lets him, though almost timidly, glimpse her work (her own portrayal of him — a him she scarcely remembers), the words on her tongue those that only he would understand:
origamiaround
tangentwithtanner
snowghoul
romaincrisis
titsay
kaledo-art
areudirty
