Devon Layne

Art Project Devon Layne

Art is headed to college with his girlfriend/sister, Morgan, and their girlfriend, Annette. How he managed to have two spectacular girlfriends is still a mystery to Art. How they managed to convince his parents that they should all live together in a suite upstairs is baffling. But Art's family is all a little strange. His mother and grandmother see people's auras. He suspects his sister does, too. His father is a professor of English Literature and named his children after characters in the Arthurian legends-names the trio has shortened in their endearments to Pen, Fay, and Lady. And Art is an artist. Enough said. College is a big, new, scary world for the socially inept artist. At the best of times he can barely get words out of his mouth. Amidst crowds of new people and demanding professors, he is in a constant state of panic. By the end of the first week, Art wants to quit. Creating a sketchbook of his classes helps him with note-taking and opens a world of possibilities as classmates become models, models become friends, and friends battle the system to right an injustice. And Art emerges an unwitting leader.