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Moment of Awesome - Megan Gwynn/Pixie: Ever the artist, Megan has some interesting questions for Matt Murdock. "Boss, can you feel different colours?" Megan was reorganizing her desk space, having recently returned from a month-long artist residency in Spain. She held a pair of small, framed textile squares - one that she had made, and one from a village in Zaragoza - deciding where to place them. Pausing his podcast and removing his earbuds, an act that was more performance than required since Matt's enhanced hearing meant that he didn't really need to remove them to hear her clearly. "Excuse me?" he asked, more for time to have a mental reset than a real need for clarification. "Feel...colours." Taking his glasses off, he rubbed the bridge of his nose before replacing them. "Sorry if that's a weird question. As an artist dependent on a narrow band of frequencies, I sometimes wonder what it would be like to interpret the world in a different way. I just spent a month designing fabric. But without sight, does this particular vibration called 'red' feel distinct?" Megan ran her fingers over the red vines flowers and vines forming a repeating pattern over a white and gold background in one of the textiles. But of course different areas had taken in different amounts of pigment and it wasn't truly two-dimensional, even without counting the embroidered detail. "Ah," Matt reached out, taking the piece to run his fingers over it lightly, "no. Vibration...I don't have synesthesia. I feel the variation in the embroidery and can make out the pattern, but colour doesn't have any sort of differentiation I can detect. Maybe if I could see and had enhanced vision, things might be different with wavelengths of light, but...not as things are now," and if he could see suddenly, he suspected he wouldn't know how to process the input from his eyes, it had been so long since they'd worked. "It is a nice pattern though." "Thanks, I made it! I picked up some Spanish, too." Megan was practically glowing with energy. "I feel really inspired after my trip, so thanks for letting me take the month off! I'm thinking of organizing an art show later this year at the mansion, want to come? Or if you have any ideas on how I can make an art show more inclusive and special to mutants, I'm still working on the details." "Absolutely," Matt agreed, wanting to be supportive. "And art can be inclusive, you just have to get a little creative. Pun intended. Check out the...Moma? Or the Guggenheim? I forget which one, but they have great interactive options for the blind if you call ahead," he hadn't been in years, but it was one of those memories that stuck out because he had been so against going, determined to have a terrible time, then had really, really enjoyed himself and discovered that sometimes, art was pretty damn awesome.