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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Wu Fei + Duo Notes: Challenge 112. Baby Series 3 #106. Takes
place a few minutes following Lead By Example. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Concepts In Art "Why do you think it's called Little White Lies?" Wu Fei arched an eyebrow and looked up from the book he had been leafing through, discovered while he was examining and antique buffet. Duo was on his third stack of paintings and Wu Fei was finding the book, a diary, to be a far more entertaining read than it was watching Duo move artwork around. "White Lies?" "Yeah. Just a sec…this. There is a plaque on the frame titled Little White Lies." Duo turned a painting to the light and Wu Fei felt his eyebrows arch up toward his hairline. Pursing his lips into a disapproving expression he snorted. "Possibly because it is an insult to art." Duo blinked, stared and laughed heartily. He had to admit what was termed modern abstract and impressionist art was not his forte. This example looked to be an assortment of vaguely rectangular shapes with irregular lines painted in various shades of white on a kaleidoscope of coloured splotches that was the background. One of the odd shaped rectangles seemed to have acquired a rupture, from which a spray of white gradually bled to the dark crimson of fresh blood. "I take it that abstract and impressionist art is not your thing, Fei?" "I prefer to recognize what I am looking at at a glance, not stare for hours in an attempt to decipher the meaning behind something that might have been painted by a chimpanzee on drugs." Duo's delighted gurgle rippled through the attic. "A chimpanzee on drugs?" "It might as well have been. A tree should look like a tree, a blade of grass should look like grass. I will never understand the abstract and impressionist attraction." "Nah, I have to admit, I don't know what they mean either. But I guess some people see things in them. It would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing." Wu Fei merely grunted in reply, eyeing the painting Duo still held. "I suppose it might represent White Lies. Various shades of white to represent the lie spoken in a series of distorted boxes. One rupturing as the truth is learned and bleeding into a bloody mess as such things usually do with the revelation of truth. The multi colour background would be the representation of life against which the white lie is told. The blood of course is self explanatory. " Duo blinked, looked intently at the painting and blinked again. "Well… Yeah, I guess so. I thought you didn't understand these things?" "Generally I do not, but that appears to be a little less ambiguous than most. Assuming I am correct in my interpretation, of course. It could equally mean white shapes on coloured paint, or the daughters of the man next door." Duo howled with laughter, doubling over and inadvertently dislodging some paintings, sending up a cloud of dust which set him to gasping and choking. ~ * ~ |
