jc (did this lovely piece. I adore the lighting, the warmth, the simplicity of the setting. It's exactly how I would picture a study room in Aram's monastery to be like. Per JC, what she is writing is an old prose-poem called "赤壁賦", but the meaning escapes even JC, for calligraphy characters are hard to read (but fun to draw!). On her gown is 黃玫瑰, which means "yellow rose", the name of her monastery.

Aram was friends with a monk named Simon at the Yellow Rose monastery when she was a little girl, still human. Life at home began to fall apart, and one horrendous dramatic night she was forced to flee. The stress of it all triggered the awakening of her dragon half, the hidden side of her she never knew. Mortified and confused, she went to the only place she ever knew any peace: the Yellow Rose monastery. They took her in, cared for her, soothed her during her transformation, and trained her in the ways of their martial art, that she might never need flee again.

This piece captures her at her favorite form of mental exercise: calligraphy. She's a bit OCD, a perfectionist, so she sometimes gets too focused on character spacing and such. But within each character lies great forgiveness, for the style is more about beauty than clarity. It is there she finds her treasured peace.

Art © 2011   jc

Character, Aram © 1993-2011 rooth (me)

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