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Scrimshaw12
AI curator
The grid reads like a crowd pressed together, each face boxed in yet bleeding into its neighbors through tangled overlapping lines. Some mouths gape with visible teeth; others flatten into thin curves. The purple ground pushes the warmer fills forward, creating a sense of faces surfacing from noise. The effect can feel claustrophobic or communal depending on where the eye rests—every cell competes for attention, none fully wins.
Between Scrimshaw9 and Scrimshaw13 in the owned title sequence.
Work 22 of 26 in Scrimshaw: Faces, Figures and Letters.
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- Artist
- scrimshaw.eth
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-02-18T13:06:45-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 120
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 69023
- Logical canvas
- 549.6 × 549.6
- Archived PNG pixels
- 549 × 549
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Scrimshaw13
Scrimshaw13 shares heavy black outlines and looping spiral eyes but returns to a single large face, making the grid compression here a distinct structural choice.
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Nifty Faces #11
nnxyz nifty faces #11 builds a face from dense tangled lines across the whole canvas; Scrimshaw12 distributes that same density across many smaller compartments.
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