#artazon

hello everyone! :] when i was watching gameplay of scarlet and violet on call w my friends i screamed aloud and scared them seeing these:

These (and 1 other in the town) are secret base decorations from ORAS, and when interacted with they say the same name and that they're from an 'unknown artist'. but given all the other art in the town was made by Brassius, I wanted to go look at these in ORAS

In ORAS, in the Lilycove Museum there is an artist (using the Kindler model probably because of the apron and gloves, ORAS doesn't have an artist trainer class) who says he just tried to submit his art to the museum and had it denied, and offers to sell it to you for ¥100000

(his dialouge if you refuse to buy anything ^ i can cry)

this museum also has a sculpture of a Shroomish by an "up and coming artist", and a painting of grass pokemon (...🌻 in RSE?)

(Brassius also has a Breloom on his team in his rematch)

Now, some guy selling his sculptures for a profit in the same museum that just rejected them seems to fit with Brassius saying there was a time he only cared about money and fame (possibly after his art was already featured in the museum) and made shallow trash

it makes sense that he wouldn't put his name on this old work, and that perhaps Surrendering Sunflora was an attempt at a return to form of his first popular work, the Shroomish. the last bit of evidence:

an artist saying it must be a brassius original, though the style is off.

winbdmill (Suggested by OP)

Propaganda- “winbdmillk”

(Credit goes to WillDinoMaster55 on Deviantart)

... Well, shit. She's back again to meta her own meta. :D

I spent five hours on Surrendering Sunflora, my friends - decoding all its little gay nuances and narratives. And yet, somehow, I didn't spot something very important about the thing itself. But that's fine, that's why we have friends to meta with. :D

Multiple people on the EphemeralArt Discord pointed out to me earlier today that this sculpture... isn't perfect. Y'see here, on the right?

Bless him, he's got a little dint. A little scar.

Now, we know about Surrendering Sunflora - we know it's part-Hassel, and we know it's part-Brassius, because Hassel is his sunshine, and Brassius was depressed as fuck at the time of making it. Blah blah, Art (4), ain't telling you anything new here.

But... it's fun, that this little scar's on the right. Now, I've chosen to show you the Pokemon Centre roof one because of its particular meaning of healing here, but every single one of them has this little scar.

Brassius, as you'll see below, is right-handed.

But... well, funny, isn't it? They're on the opposite side. Art is perspective, my friends. You and I, looking at the Sunflora head-on, see it on the right - and yet we know, from our own angles, that Brassius is holding that Tera Orb in his right hand.

... Which makes it very interesting indeed that Hassel isn't right-handed.

Hassel is one of only two lefties in all of Paldea (and oh trust me, there's a whole world in that shit - bear with, I'm cooking on a leftie comparative. :D) And Hassel, as we know from his personal school quests, has a negative past too - one he's been equally saved from in having a new lease of life and a new husband.

So, if you look at Surrendering Sunflora as Brassie intended, head-on, you will see his own scars on the right - healed up, brightened, healthy and loved, but still present if you look closely enough.

... And if go behind Surrending Sunflora, and look at it as if you were the sculpture, which we know Hassel partly is...

... Your perspective will change. The scar would be on your left - much like the man who always runs from the past, and his own emotional scars.

Two men, two directions... one narrative of mutual healing.