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60 Red Letters - GALLERY REOPENING
Who: Nora and YOU
What: Paradisa Art Gallery Reopening
When: 6/29 5 PM to midnight
Where: Paradisa Art Gallery
Rating: PG-13ish. Some've these kids have mouths on them
Notes: If you'd like to see the Gallery for yourself click here for a model I did up. Just, uh, ignore the fact that the sculptures kind of hover NEXT to the half wall.
No sections - make your own. Threadjack. Have fun! If you'd like to contribute something to the gallery shoot me a private plurk or a PM and I'll update it!
The Paradisa Art Gallery is located near the center of town. The outside is brick with a small awning and two big picture windows. These windows are regularly coated with paint when Nora gets bored and decides to do murals on them. When you step through the door there's a small anteroom with bulletin boards on each side of the door for locals and residents alike to do postings.
Through the next doorway is the gallery proper. To the immediate right is a desk which is usually staffed by someone to give out a guide to what's showing at the moment, answer questions or take submissions. Right now there are no employees other than Nora so there isn't always someone sitting there. To the left is a half wall topped with smaller sculptures or other creations. If you keep walking straight forward there's a wall on the right with art hanging on it. Between the two walls are two leather benches. Against the back wall are a few doors. One is marked PRIVATE and leads to the back room where art that either doesn't fit or doesn't have a home yet is stored. This space can also be used for studio space if you ask the owner really nicely. In a small recess are the doors to the restrooms, men's and women's. Continuing around the corner to the right there's another door marked OFFICE. Completing the U-Turn around the half wall will bring you to another stretch with art hung on the wall and two leather benches in the middle of the walkway.
From the front of the Gallery if you turn right, past the desk, you'll come to the last section. On the left is a wall with art hung on it. To the right, however, the entire wall seems to have been painted black. The wall isn't just black, however. The entire wall is a chalk board. Small shelves are hung along it with every color of chalk imaginable. On the back wall there are more shelves hung with more chalk and other things that can be used to create art on the chalkboard wall. Step stools are also available. Every visitor is encouraged to write or draw something on the wall. Everything stays on the wall until it's either erased by another patron or when the wall's completely full at which time Nora wipes it clean.
Below is a list of all the artwork on display at the Gallery. The art is arranged by artist.
Jilly Coppercorn:


(used with permission from
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Steve Rogers
A painting of Rue by a lake
A painting of of every world change from Paris through the time he left (I'll track down which ones they were one of these days)
Peeta Mellark
TBD
Neal Caffrey
A statue of Paige Matthews
A sculpture of Cair Paradisa
Various landscapes of the grounds of Paradisa as seen from different places within the castle.
Landscapes of the grounds from outside the castle
Sketches of various rooms within the castle (i.e. The Lux, The Seasons Room)
Chell
"She'd discovered the ability to hold paint brushes in both her toes and hands, and had painted that way, sprawling on the canvas. The art had turned out abstract, but... not totally bad. After all, art is art, yes? And even in its abstractness, it still represented something to Chell. So she'd titled it, neatly, in her best handwriting, "How Ideas Are Born""
Nicholas St. North
A set of matrushka dolls

E. Aster Bunnymund
-A large rabbit hole in the corner of the Gallery floor with velvet ropes blocking it off. Next to it is a black sign with gold script that simply reads "Do you Believe?" (On the map linked below it's shown by the black square in one of the corners)
-Watercolor paintings of spring flowers
Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener AKA Gren
Finger paintings done by his Paradisa-given son, Colby. All are of animals done completely in blue paint titled "Wildlife in Blue"
Amazingly, Nora does not have any art up on the walls at this time. She's decided to showcase everyone else. The entire Gallery is hers, after all, she's not going to use it to show off.
Spaced out around the gallery are a series of small tables with finger food that have been specially set up for the occasion. There's also a small bar in the corner with both alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks. Everything's free, though there are a few donation boxes around. Nora (Looking much more dressed up than usual) can be found just about anywhere in the gallery today, making sure everything's moving smoothly and greeting everyone whether she knows them or not.
What: Paradisa Art Gallery Reopening
When: 6/29 5 PM to midnight
Where: Paradisa Art Gallery
Rating: PG-13ish. Some've these kids have mouths on them
Notes: If you'd like to see the Gallery for yourself click here for a model I did up. Just, uh, ignore the fact that the sculptures kind of hover NEXT to the half wall.
No sections - make your own. Threadjack. Have fun! If you'd like to contribute something to the gallery shoot me a private plurk or a PM and I'll update it!
The Paradisa Art Gallery is located near the center of town. The outside is brick with a small awning and two big picture windows. These windows are regularly coated with paint when Nora gets bored and decides to do murals on them. When you step through the door there's a small anteroom with bulletin boards on each side of the door for locals and residents alike to do postings.
Through the next doorway is the gallery proper. To the immediate right is a desk which is usually staffed by someone to give out a guide to what's showing at the moment, answer questions or take submissions. Right now there are no employees other than Nora so there isn't always someone sitting there. To the left is a half wall topped with smaller sculptures or other creations. If you keep walking straight forward there's a wall on the right with art hanging on it. Between the two walls are two leather benches. Against the back wall are a few doors. One is marked PRIVATE and leads to the back room where art that either doesn't fit or doesn't have a home yet is stored. This space can also be used for studio space if you ask the owner really nicely. In a small recess are the doors to the restrooms, men's and women's. Continuing around the corner to the right there's another door marked OFFICE. Completing the U-Turn around the half wall will bring you to another stretch with art hung on the wall and two leather benches in the middle of the walkway.
From the front of the Gallery if you turn right, past the desk, you'll come to the last section. On the left is a wall with art hung on it. To the right, however, the entire wall seems to have been painted black. The wall isn't just black, however. The entire wall is a chalk board. Small shelves are hung along it with every color of chalk imaginable. On the back wall there are more shelves hung with more chalk and other things that can be used to create art on the chalkboard wall. Step stools are also available. Every visitor is encouraged to write or draw something on the wall. Everything stays on the wall until it's either erased by another patron or when the wall's completely full at which time Nora wipes it clean.
Below is a list of all the artwork on display at the Gallery. The art is arranged by artist.
Jilly Coppercorn:


(used with permission from
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Steve Rogers
A painting of Rue by a lake
A painting of of every world change from Paris through the time he left (I'll track down which ones they were one of these days)
Peeta Mellark
TBD
Neal Caffrey
A statue of Paige Matthews
A sculpture of Cair Paradisa
Various landscapes of the grounds of Paradisa as seen from different places within the castle.
Landscapes of the grounds from outside the castle
Sketches of various rooms within the castle (i.e. The Lux, The Seasons Room)
Chell
"She'd discovered the ability to hold paint brushes in both her toes and hands, and had painted that way, sprawling on the canvas. The art had turned out abstract, but... not totally bad. After all, art is art, yes? And even in its abstractness, it still represented something to Chell. So she'd titled it, neatly, in her best handwriting, "How Ideas Are Born""
Nicholas St. North
A set of matrushka dolls
E. Aster Bunnymund
-A large rabbit hole in the corner of the Gallery floor with velvet ropes blocking it off. Next to it is a black sign with gold script that simply reads "Do you Believe?" (On the map linked below it's shown by the black square in one of the corners)
-Watercolor paintings of spring flowers
Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener AKA Gren
Finger paintings done by his Paradisa-given son, Colby. All are of animals done completely in blue paint titled "Wildlife in Blue"
Amazingly, Nora does not have any art up on the walls at this time. She's decided to showcase everyone else. The entire Gallery is hers, after all, she's not going to use it to show off.
Spaced out around the gallery are a series of small tables with finger food that have been specially set up for the occasion. There's also a small bar in the corner with both alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks. Everything's free, though there are a few donation boxes around. Nora (Looking much more dressed up than usual) can be found just about anywhere in the gallery today, making sure everything's moving smoothly and greeting everyone whether she knows them or not.
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But Mark dragged him out, and he's honestly missed just hanging out with people his own age. He's not settled here, though. His brain is still very much in survival mode, and he's having trouble switching it off. He hasn't relaxed in so long now, it's a foreign concept to him.
So, he's off to one side, people watching and occasionally jumping at shadows. At least he's cleaned up now.
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Threadjack? If that's all right?
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He wouldn't usually do this back home but he figured some of those artist chicks are actually quite hot so why not?
He's stopped at Steve Rodgers picture of Paris...he'll just be observing it for a while.]
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You were saying about hot artist chicks?Nora makes her way over to the man, smiling cheerfully]Were you here for that one? It was pretty cool.
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See that? This place is rockin'.
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At that moment he was looking at the matrushka dolls, a little amused smile on his face.]
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Hey, Giotto!
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He drops a few caisos in a donation box, steers clear of the tables of food, and begins a slow circuit through the gallery. While he considers each piece, some interest him more than others--Jilly Coppercorn's drawings and Neal Caffrey's landscapes especially.
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"Gideon! Hi, I'm glad you came."
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He notices Gideon among the crowd and gives him a smile, still somewhat strained even after all this time]
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Something meaningful, but quite a few things he knows are meaningful. "This is harder than I thought." He taps his bicep with a peice of chalk. Definitely harder.
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"If you are able to read this, you are clearly not blindfolded."
below it, he transcribes a simple symbol - something that at first glance, looks like an eye, but upon closer inspection, is much more: an eye made up of three certain letters of the alphabet]
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"(Unless your blindfold is very thin.)"
Satisfied, he moves on to looking at the rest of the designs marked on the wall.]
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After arriving, she'll look around at the various exhibits a bit, but she's also looking around for people she knows... and especially Nora, if she has the time to talk between hosting duties!
But at the moment, she's looking very curiously at North's set of matryoshka dolls...]
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Hey! You look awesome!
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I know the place looks badass, but get a grip on yourself, dude.
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Aside from that, he can be found admiring the paintings and drawings, in particular those of Neal Caffrey and Jilly Coppercorn...
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Seeing Five looking at one of Jilly's drawings she can't help but approach. She thinks back to one of the paintings she'd seen in Five's TARDIS, of the things he'd told her about the woman who had painted it. The same woman who had painted the mural now gone along with the wall it had been painted upon. She smiles a little sadly when she steps up next to the Doctor, eyes looking over the drawing.
"You were friends with you, you know. The last time you were here?"
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Hey you're getting really good, you know that?
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She means it, too. Geez how long has it been since she's talked to James? She talks to Ashley enough to know the dirt on how he's doing but it's not the same as talking to him.