{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Such vibrant freshness, even after an entire day outside the storage." }, { "id": 1, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "In a mere month, you've absorbed the finer points of this technique like a sponge—down to the microscopic subtleties only relentless obsession can hope to capture." }, { "id": 2, "content": "A chalky-white gallery showered in even dryer, sterile light." }, { "id": 3, "content": "Laid upon the sharp-angled machine palm was a beating, bright-red heart. Just as the child observed earlier, there was even a vibrant sheen to it, as though it was only recently removed from \"storage\"—or a body." }, { "id": 4, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Faust intends to commit your teachings in their entirety to Faust, down to the smallest marginalia." }, { "id": 5, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Because Faust is a genius." }, { "id": 6, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "You may succeed yet indeed. Many Students have I cultivated under my tutelage, but I have not seen anyone master the arts as quickly as Faust does... not since that child." }, { "id": 7, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "I have no more heart-sculpting lessons to give. Starting tomorrow, we will shift our focus to the details." }, { "id": 8, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Ah. Do you mean to let Fascia partake in your artwork again?" }, { "id": 9, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "... Yes. It would be best if Fascia experienced the work in the most holistic manner—through her digestive organs." }, { "id": 10, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Bravo... Utter perfection, both the journey and the destination." }, { "id": 11, "content": "The child closed his eye, his lips drawing a satisfied smile." }, { "id": 12, "content": "His bliss could be attributed not only to his reunion with this long-lost delight of guiding a protégé, but also to the fact that the protégé was a rare kind of voracious genius who readily devoured his teachings." }, { "id": 13, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "When do you expect Fascia to be completed?" }, { "id": 14, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "... Uncertain as of yet. The intensity of dedication seems to directly correlate with the anxiety about shortcomings." }, { "id": 15, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Maestro, how much time... did you dedicate to perfecting Tibia?" }, { "id": 16, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Many years, a decade of which was solely dedicated to sculpting and polishing its form." }, { "id": 17, "content": "The child gazed down upon Tibia, his eye gleaming not with pride, not with love, but... something more." }, { "id": 18, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "When Tibia earned its status as a Magnum Opus, it was for its... plasticity." }, { "id": 19, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "It retains the nigh-infinite possibilities of the human corpus: an automated judgment to instinctively transform, lengthen, and harden itself in response to environmental stimuli." }, { "id": 20, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "My colleagues at The Ring were most captivated by Tibia, but... Alas, Tibia was a once-in-a-lifetime project, as its creation consumed the entirety of my physical corpus." }, { "id": 21, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "If plasticity is the primary concern, perhaps the corpus of another, worthy of aesthetic appreciation, could have been used as medium for your next project?" }, { "id": 22, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "The corpora of others are unfamiliar media when compared to one's own. After all, none knows the body more intimately than its owner—potentialities and limitations alike. Mine, I perceive in exact precision. The act of artistic creation using media with which one is so innately unfamiliar only serves to fill the world with pointless mediocrities, don't you think?" }, { "id": 23, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Truly, Maestro." }, { "id": 24, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "So... never dismiss the hours dedicated to art as squandered, Faust." }, { "id": 25, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Your art has subsumed even parts of your cerebral matter—time will only perfect it." }, { "id": 26, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Your choice of subject matter—so very experimental and philosophical, I might add—interests me in particular. I am curious to see what inspiration the project might offer once it is completed." }, { "id": 27, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "... Thank you." }, { "id": 28, "content": "The child's protégé gave him a light nod of appreciation, but soon lifted her eyes to inquire, her voice curious." }, { "id": 29, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "If I may be so bold, Maestro..." }, { "id": 30, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Could you... tell me the reason why you have not removed your other eye and your hair?" }, { "id": 31, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "I seek perspective, to explore different avenues in this existential meditation." }, { "id": 32, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Aha... Well asked." }, { "id": 33, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "To begin... this isn't my \"hair.\" It is a sort of prosthesis, painstakingly woven with organic fibers." }, { "id": 34, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Perhaps one day I shall teach you this technique as well. Indeed, its intricacies pale abreast blood vessels or tendons, but... the imitation of hair can be an illuminating learning process to learn how color composition creates detail, and how lines can come together to form a sense of depth." }, { "id": 35, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "As for this eye..." }, { "id": 36, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Yes, I would be remiss to abandon such an indispensable window upon which inspirations are reflected. However..." }, { "id": 37, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "... I must be considerate of the gracious host of audience who, from just behind my eye, appreciate my life and artistic endeavors within." }, { "id": 38, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Audience...? Do you mean to say that your eye is a... prosthesis... \"connected\" elsewhere?" }, { "id": 39, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Not quite. Though it is an... \"inheritance,\" it is also a precious jade... that I alone must safeguard." }, { "id": 40, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Fuhu, there once was a time when I thought it was but a tool to quell their boredom, something to let them see the world outside." }, { "id": 41, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "But once I studied it myself, once I explored its intricacies... I must say, I was positively flabbergasted. My, it even helped me understand that there was something gramps and grannies simply could not let go." }, { "id": 42, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Yes, what a fascinating creation it is." }, { "id": 43, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "And that... is why I did not integrate it into Tibia. So that it may fulfill the worth inhered in its existence." }, { "id": 44, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Hm... I see." }, { "id": 45, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Has my answer been helpful enough?" }, { "id": 46, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Oh. Yes. It was but a question born out of contemplation over the concept of \"connection.\"" }, { "id": 47, "content": "The protégé's curiosity was yet to be fully sated, but the child simply nodded in acceptance." }, { "id": 48, "content": "Acceptance that his protégé had already matured, paving her path that diverged from his own." }, { "id": 49, "content": "She merely needed a question to confirm the gaze of others, no more." }, { "id": 50, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Very well, then..." }, { "id": 51, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "... let us call it a day." }, { "id": 52, "content": "Said the child, noticing a flickering light by his wrist." }, { "id": 53, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Ah, do we have guests?" }, { "id": 54, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Yes, we do. The Corridor has seen quite a lot of... uninvited guests as of late." }, { "id": 55, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Uninvited guests...?" }, { "id": 56, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Visitors with intentions other than to appreciate my gallery. Some of them discourteous enough to vandalize my installations or, in more severely troublesome cases, attack me." }, { "id": 57, "model": "파우스트", "title": "The Ring Apprentice", "content": "Should you will me so, I could assist with trouble of such nature—" }, { "id": 58, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "That won't be necessary. All outcomes are in unpredictable flux until they are experienced firsthand, no?" }, { "id": 59, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "If these visitors are the civil kind, it would only be right that I return their kindness by playing the curator to this gallery of mine—with the recent addition, it would indeed be quite the timely visit for them." }, { "id": 60, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "I must admit, I am also motivated by a curiosity to find out whether my newfound intent during my tenure here has been properly communicated." }, { "id": 61, "content": "The child gave a faint smile, then began descending the spiral staircase alongside the protégé." }, { "id": 62, "content": "It was, indeed, no false alarm." }, { "id": 63, "content": "A squad of people, all dressed in bright blue gear, was wandering through the gallery of art installations." }, { "id": 64, "content": "Though it was quite a spacious hall, they were threading their way between the sculptures with extra caution..." }, { "id": 65, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Has this location ever been recorded before? By the looks of it, we've just walked into one of The Ring's galleries." }, { "id": 66, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "No, I think we might've stepped wrong somewhere along the way. ... This might be the first time this location's been observed." }, { "id": 67, "content": "... and from the tense anxiety tinting their voices as they talked to each other, it was clear that they had stumbled in here by accident." }, { "id": 68, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Hey, who knows... Might be one of those places where no one survived to deliver the report—" }, { "id": 69, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Greetings." }, { "id": 70, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "...!" }, { "id": 71, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "There's been a recent influx of guests in the same uniform as yours." }, { "id": 72, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Ah, could it be that you are their colleagues? If only you had made a group reservation ahead of your visit... I would have prepared a more structured curation for our visitors. I don't suppose you were terribly interested in that?" }, { "id": 73, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Great. I suppose he's the one who caused all those no-returnee expeditions..." }, { "id": 74, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Prepare to engage—!" }, { "id": 75, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Non." }, { "id": 76, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "My, it seems that today's guests are quite impatient." }, { "id": 77, "content": "The strangers in blue all raised their weapons and braced for a fight, but the child returned their hostility with a graceful, amicable bow." }, { "id": 78, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Allow me to introduce myself first—I am Hong Lu, Maestro, and the proud owner of this gallery." }, { "id": 79, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "A private gallery, I might add; we rarely receive guests who lack even the frailest connection to this establishment... let alone an invitation or a reservation." }, { "id": 80, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "... Still, I will always view the expanding accessibility of art to the public as a positive development, regardless of how it occurs." }, { "id": 81, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "\"Art?\" What, is that what they call these bone chunks—" }, { "id": 82, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Let's not provoke him. I think we just walked into a \"Corporist\" gallery of The Ring." }, { "id": 83, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "I don't want to find out how he'll react to negative reviews of his work—" }, { "id": 84, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "No, no. This is most wonderful." }, { "id": 85, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "That a complete layperson could possess the knowledge of the art movement I spearhead." }, { "id": 86, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "So... we're good?" }, { "id": 87, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "It is true that many without the predilection toward gore find it difficult to appreciate the aesthetic philosophy of Corporist art." }, { "id": 88, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "As much as I desire to invite many to delve headfirst into this artistic discipline, I mourn the reality that there are restricting hurdles that prevent understanding." }, { "id": 89, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "That is why I have sought out a new avenue of contemplation the day I became a Maestro." }, { "id": 90, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Knowingly or not, every corner, every side, every surface of your lives is touched by movements of art." }, { "id": 91, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "If I could weave and coalesce those slightest brushes into a singular, all-encompassing masterpiece, something that could move the hearts of all fellow men... Yes, then I could be said to have created the true magnum opus of the century." }, { "id": 92, "content": "And that was the child's honest, genuine belief." }, { "id": 93, "content": "As others placed the blame upon him for the movement's struggles, for the absence of its anchor, he slowly faded away from the mainstream and became a has-been so far removed from his prime..." }, { "id": 94, "content": "... But even after he arrived at the House of Spiders, he never once stopped creating his art for that singular purpose." }, { "id": 95, "content": "Art that could be understood and appreciated by every resident of the City, even those without the slightest connection to the discipline. A thread that makes kindred souls out of all humanity." }, { "id": 96, "content": "And the end of that lone, red thread was looped at the tip of his fingers, the culmination of his endeavor." }, { "id": 97, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "This thread is twined threefold from the tendons of the right heel cord, taken from a... certain \"material\" that flickered my first light of inspiration." }, { "id": 98, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "The subject matter: Deconstruction... and reinvention." }, { "id": 99, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Let's follow the thread, shall we? Please, do join me as each artwork of my oeuvre tells its tale, and... slowly familiarize yourselves with it." }, { "id": 100, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "... Ah." }, { "id": 101, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "854 signals foun— Wait. Is this... They're all... organic tissue?" }, { "id": 102, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "The readings are coming from... they're above us. No, under us. Wait, no. Behind the curtains, inside the pillars—they're everywhere." }, { "id": 103, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "And now, we together witness the moment of convergence." }, { "id": 104, "content": "Excitement pulsing through his machine body, the child gently tugs on the thread..." }, { "id": 105, "content": "... and the two lost souls, unwitting and unwilling participants to this performance, watch helplessly as a red-and-pale something emerges from every surface around them with a discomforting din." }, { "id": 106, "content": "The child's research, his studies, honed and perfected over many years in the House of Spiders..." }, { "id": 107, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "This is... disgusting." }, { "id": 108, "teller": "???", "title": "Uninvited Guest?", "content": "Who in their right mind... would call this... art?" }, { "id": 109, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "... Oh please, don't give up so quickly." }, { "id": 110, "content": "... may have culminated in yet another failure." }, { "id": 111, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Now, the show begins." }, { "id": 112, "content": "But it may be that failures and the like no longer matter to the child." }, { "id": 113, "content": "For he is but a madman, a Maestro who has long since forgotten his once-desperate desire to be understood, to be acknowledged." }, { "id": 114, "content": "The lack of acknowledgement from the audience only signified the dullness of their sensibilities, after all." }, { "id": 115, "content": "He had faith that one day, someone will arrive with due recognition." }, { "id": 116, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Title: Corpus Theater." }, { "id": 117, "model": "홍루", "title": "The Ring Nursefather", "content": "Do enjoy." } ] }