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NNOTB #291
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The flat brown field holds the head steady while everything inside it moves in a different direction. Zigzag bands cut across the eye line like a signal interrupting the form. Layered loops and rectangles fill the interior without settling into a single reading—mechanical, anatomical, and decorative at once. The spiral eye and arched teeth give the face its anchor points; the rest resists resolution.
Between NNOTB #290 and NNOTB #292 in the owned title sequence.
Work 2 of 24 in Across the Surface.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2022-09-17T10:49:10-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 81
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 2
- Sampled points
- 20994
- Logical canvas
- 790.5 × 790.5
- Archived PNG pixels
- 790 × 790
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 2
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Related works
NNOTB #290
nnxyz nnotb #290 shares the horizontal zigzag beam crossing the eye zone and a profile-facing head, but its dark background and translucent color washes make the interior feel receding where #291 feels dense and opaque.
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NNOTB #292
nnxyz nnotb #292 repeats the zigzag beam at the same horizontal position but replaces the brown ground and layered line-work with a saturated multicolor wash, showing how the same device reads differently against a neutral versus a busy field.
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