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Nifty Faces #20
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The flat-topped mass presses down from above, its surface so densely cross-hatched in yellow and magenta that it reads as weight rather than detail. Below it, the two small circles feel almost buried, peering out from beneath cascading lines. The border holds everything tightly, and that containment reads as tension — something large pressing against something small, with the white ground offering no relief between them.
Between Nifty Faces #19 and Nifty Faces #21 in the owned title sequence.
Work 17 of 21 in Faces Made of Layers.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-11-30T21:36:40-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 166
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 55689
- Logical canvas
- 894.1999999999999 × 894.1999999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 894 × 894
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Related works
Nifty Faces #19
Both works build a central massed form through dense multi-color cross-hatching, but #19 sets that form on a dark ground with spiral shapes clearly exposed, while #20 buries its smaller circular forms beneath a heavier overhanging shape on white.
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Nifty Faces #21
Both #20 and #21 use a flat-topped upper form and long falling lines, but #21 leaves the white ground largely open and drives the composition with red, while #20 fills nearly the full frame and anchors it with a bold triple-band border.
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