The Best War Ever... This should be taught in history classes.

The story starts with a fun, beautiful sculpture I started with my Period One art class for a terrible project. The prompt was to - as tables - create a sculpture, which would then be revised by each class. Of course, that would mean that your sculpture would be drastically different by the next day.

My table created a surrealist playground, complete with children playing and a three-dimensional sun hanging by a string over the scene (not pictured.)

The lines were simplistic and descript, the shapes were creative and yet realistic enough to convey and idea.

The next day, We arrived in the art room to find that the other classes had not only changed our sculpture, they had completely thrown it out and REPLACED IT with a badly-constructed black whale. We were fuming. We were CRAZY. We wanted revenge. But it would not do to seek and equal revenge... instead we would be fair, and continue to add on to their sculpture... by terrorizing it.

There is the whale... with a fish in its mouth... bleeding from the head and eyes.

That is a harpoon through its brain.

Note that all shapes are made of paper.

These are the ghosts of the children in our old sculpture, dancing victoriously on top of the defeated whale.

I take a lot of pride in the detail involved.

Oh... they also made a snake coming out of the water. So we decapitated it. (It was already in two pieces anyway.)

Meanwhile, other tables were creating thought-provoking, well-constructed pieces of art like this.

When we returned the next day, it was clear the other classes were not there to play. Intense healing had already begun on our prize whale.

Even the snake was recuperating. The people had been removed from the whale's head.

There were a few scars, but essentially the creatures were unscathed.

This little addition tickled me pink. At least, in this little battle, we all maintained a sense of humor. Had the project not been discontinued (because of our battle, of course!) our table would have made a pirate ship throwing a net over the whale and aiming all cannons at the little dinghy with the activist in it.

They may have won the battle... but the war's not over yet.