by captain dude » Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:02 am
Name: Oracle (she/they)
The dreams come. Psychedelic. Vivid. Oft nightmarish. And Oracle loathes them. Visions and futures plague Oracle, causing her to loathe the act of sleep. Even while waking, Oracle is a prisoner to mulling over her visions. But one thing helps free their mind: imagining a simpler life.
She’s always wanted to be an art student in some large city and have her own little studio to make wonderfully colorful paintings and mixed media pieces. Perhaps someplace rainy where she could wear boots and have an umbrella and have to shake off her coat before coming in. She imagines herself making a little cup of black coffee (and maybe even burning her tongue on it) and a bagel before losing herself in an endless repetition of brushstrokes on canvas. Maybe she’d have a fellow student walk by and say hello or give advice or just talk. Maybe she’d find a new material and smile to herself.
She likes thinking of herself adopting a new aesthetic, maybe some punk black jeans, a skull ring, a new tattoo, some piercings. Or maybe something bubbly and light, a feminine flowy dress. Or some eclectic clothes from a thrift shop. She loves picturing the camaraderie with her fellow students as they laugh and chat over their latest art pieces. Maybe they all share some food from their own home cultures at a potluck, have a movie night with a unique arthouse film, or listen to music made by people in the department. She loves picturing the happiness of a room full of people sharing the same passion. What must it be like? That happiness? That passion? That love? People who took interest, not just in her work, but in her as a person. Maybe they'd take their friends to arboretums on the weekends, or go downtown to enjoy the sights, or go hunting for good finds at the record shop.
Oh, and the creations she'd make! She loves imagining herself making something new all the time. Costumes, sculptures, paintings, murals. They could get lost in picturing themselves all dressed up in a suit, getting ready for an art show at a museum and leading guests around while they proudly explain the meaning behind their art.
Oh, meaning. To show meaning about the world at large, rather than specificities of personal doomsday events. She would rather display the meaning of being a person, rather than the future. Assigning meaning to little things, the lighting of a piece, the colour, the posing, rather than horrifying images with all too much meaning. Getting caught up in the beauty of everyday life and... just finding meaning where she was at.
She could only dream, couldn't she?