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NNOTB #167
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The gold mass pushes close to the picture edge, leaving little breathing room. That compressed space, combined with the dark open cavity below the pale bar, reads as strain or held tension rather than calm. The scattered teal loops feel loose against the tight warm core, a contrast that keeps the image unsettled. White lines inside the cavity suggest teeth or interior structure without resolving into certainty.
Between NNOTB #166 and NNOTB #168 in the owned title sequence.
Work 14 of 15 in Building the Head.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2022-07-06T14:29:20-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 201
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 27454
- Logical canvas
- 742.05 × 742.05
- Archived PNG pixels
- 742 × 742
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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NNOTB #168
nnxyz nnotb #168 shares the open-cavity mouth form and layered looping lines, but its flat orange ground and hard black outlines make the contrast with this work's blended warm tones direct and visible.
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Scrimshaw 41
Scrimshaw 41 shows a gold-amber ground with loose lines crossing a face-like form; the collector's noted visual link between scrimshaw and nnxyz is legible in the shared warm field and overlaid mark behavior.
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