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NNOTB #237
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The dark central form reads as a face under pressure: its crossed eye and mismatched green socket create asymmetry rather than calm. The spiked crown above and the toothed mouth below frame it as something between authority and alarm. Yellow loops crowd the background without resolving into legible marks, keeping the surrounding space restless. The collector's link to scrimshaw feels apt — dense line-work scored into a dark ground.
Between NNOTB #236 and NNOTB #238 in the owned title sequence.
Work 18 of 30 in Two Sides of a Face.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2022-08-20T05:37:05-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 195
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 2
- Sampled points
- 26166
- Logical canvas
- 738.65 × 738.65
- Archived PNG pixels
- 738 × 738
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Related works
NNOTB #236
Both center a dark spike-crowned face with an X-marked eye circle and a white-toothed mouth zone, but #236 sets this on a gray ground with looser outer lines, while #237 compresses the elements into a tighter olive-gold field.
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NNOTB #238
#238 shares the spiked crown and a white horizontal teeth bar, but its flat orange field and diagonal blue slashes produce a more open, scattered surface compared to #237's contained circular form.
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