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Scrimshaw 24
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The face emerges from accumulation—loops pile on loops until two asymmetric eye hollows and a barred mouth surface from the tangle. The white X over the left eye reads as sealed or struck through, giving the two sides different weight, as if one half watches and the other refuses. Purple scribbles spill past the face into the background, dissolving any boundary between figure and field. The effect can feel both frantic and oddly contained.
Between Scrimshaw 21 and Scrimshaw 33 in the owned title sequence.
Work 18 of 26 in Scrimshaw: Faces, Figures and Letters.
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- Artist
- scrimshaw.eth
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-05-11T16:41:20-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 320
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 58344
- Logical canvas
- 583.9499999999999 × 583.9499999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 583 × 583
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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