“Stupid. Dumb head. Shutting me out… Sheesh!” Bartholomew grumbled as he stomped down the Barcelona street.
In the surreal light of lampposts, a couple of painted people, their faces a mix of triangles, circles, and other geometric shapes, approached. Bartholomew quieted and tried to act normal. The last thing he wanted was for more Artanians to treat him like an outcast.
Even though he should have seen just their profiles, he could see the other side of their faces too. It was little disconcerting for Bartholomew at first, but then he remembered from his study of cubism that these artists painted as if seeing from multiple angles at once. Before Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque experimented with this style most painters created scenes as if viewed straight on. Still, it was strange to s
