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Scrimshaw 18
AI curator
The head reads as a mask or container: rigid rectangular scaffolding in red and blue holds soft pink fills and dark voids. Zigzag lines across the forehead and teeth-like marks along the lower opening give the form a grinning, almost mechanical quality. The orbiting purple and yellow loops feel restless, as though the figure vibrates against its own outline. Here color blocks and line compete for the same space, producing a sense of pressure inside the frame.
Between Scrimshaw15 and Scrimshaw 21 in the owned title sequence.
Work 7 of 26 in Scrimshaw: Faces, Figures and Letters.
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- Artist
- scrimshaw.eth
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-04-07T12:31:55-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 77
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 4
- Sampled points
- 31509
- Logical canvas
- 1133.05 × 1133.05
- Archived PNG pixels
- 1133 × 1133
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Scrimshaw 21
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Nifty Faces #9
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