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2023/07/27

July 27, 2023

2023/07/24

July 24, 2023
A strange, mask-like object. It has an arrangement of details that suggest a face, but a weird and mechanical one: a perfectly round eye in the top right, a semicircular indentation in the middle left, a nose that looks more like a metal spike or machine part. The right side of the face has several carved, curving indentations, like a wooden mask. There are a few tendrils of something hanging off the bottom of the mask, suggesting attempts at facial hair.

2023/07/22

July 22, 2023
A large, furry, headless figure holds up a large mask on a stick. The mask is a big-nosed, bearded face with its mouth slightly open. Sitting on top of the figure, where its head would normally be, is a person sitting in a chair. The mask is positioned directly in front of the seated person, obscuring it totally from view if you were approaching the headless figure, er, head-on. The seated person is holding an umbrella with two horns on top. The overall effect is of a large, horned, furry monster, with most of its head replaced by a person sitting in a chair.

2023/07/21

July 21, 2023
A portrait of a furry creature from the chest up. The creature stands like a person, but is not a person. The creature has a long neck, a round black eye like a rodent, and a sharp snout. The creature's mouth is slightly open, as though it is in the middle of speaking. It is wearing what looks like a naval coat over a T-shirt, with a shield-like patch where a badge would be. The patch has an anchor design on it. The creature is wearing a sailor's cap.

2023/07/12

July 12, 2023
A crude white face on a black background. The face has two cavernous eyes, a frowning mouth, and no nose. It is roughly scribbled in crayon, as though drawn by a toddler. Above the face is a more carefully drawn wide-brimmed hat, floating in space. Below the face is a shirt, also more realistically drawn. The shirt is upright, as though someone is standing in it, but empty, as though the person is invisible. The overall effect is that of an invisible figure wearing a hat, a shirt, and a disproportionately large, misshapen face drawn by an upset child.

2023/07/08

July 8, 2023
A roughly cut rocky slab with a large arched window in it stands among grass. It's a puppet theater, in which a production is taking place: two round faces on sticks interact. The two faces resemble Facebook's "angry" and "haha" emoji. The angry face is looking up at the laughing face. The angry face has a beard; the laughing face, placed above it, has spiky hair. Above the two figures hang items intended as scenery: a cloud and a lightning bolt, both suspended from the top of the window by threads. There's a wispy suggestion of clouds in the top left of the sky. Perched on top of the right side of the theater is a black bird that looks a little like a crow. Below the window, on the front of the theater, is carved a mask, one side of which is frowning, and one side of which is smiling.

2023/07/07

July 7, 2023
A very pointed, nearly perfectly conical hill, covered with grass. Balanced on the point of the hill, sort of like a platter on someone's head, is a flat platform, on which stands a large, stone statue. The statue has a humanoid face, but is roughly cut, with no arms or legs, and looks like a religious figurine. Sitting right under the platform, keeping it balanced on the tip of the hill, are two figures. One of them is looking at a phone. The sky is mostly clear, with a few wispy clouds.

2023/07/06

July 6, 2023
It is very late evening or very early morning. Standing in a grassy meadow is a giant round sign, maybe 10 feet in diameter: a smiley-face that appears to be constructed from metal and plastic, like a sign for a gas station or roadside attraction. The sign is falling apart: panels are missing or broken, revealing the metal framework underneath, and plants dangle from the frame. In the background is the suggestion of a foggy tree line. Standing to the right of the sign is a person, shining a flashlight up at it. The darkness and the beam from the flashlight throw the seams and contours of the sign into sharp relief, making the smile empty and menacing. As Lon Chaney once said, "There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."

2023/07/04

July 4, 2023
A creature with heavy, primitive facial features, pointed ears, fur all over its face, and eerily expressive eyes stares pensively at a small sphere suspended by a string above its head. Only the creature's conical, gorilla-esque head is shown.

2023/07/01

July 1, 2023
A rectangular shape that looks like a boxy human head without ears, similar to a mask. The face has tired eyes with bags under them, craggy features, and a prominent nose. Set into the person's forehead is a small, roundish cathode ray tube display, like something you would have seen on an early personal computer (to be specific, any Mac made between 1984 and 1986). Nothing is being displayed on the screen, however. The person's mouth is a disk drive: the kind designed for those 3.5-inch Sony diskettes, to be specific. The steam engine that powered these very early computing devices is not shown.

2023/06/18

June 18, 2023
Three boulders stacked, one on top of each other, on top of a small, grassy hill. The lowest boulder has a mouth; the middle boulder has a nose; the topmost boulder has a single eye. Moss hangs from the boulders, and two birds perch on top of the top boulder. There are no clouds or sun.

2023/06/11

June 11, 2023
A face in profile, with a blur of short, dark hair. The face is sterile, minimalist, and expressionless, like that of a mannequin. It appears to be a mask, but other lines and seams make it look as though the entire head is assembled of multiple parts, as if the entire figure in the drawing is a machine or robot of some sort.

2023/06/09

June 9, 2023
A huge, wrinkled face rises out of the desert floor, seemingly carved from stone. It looks like an obelisk. All of it is fully formed, except for the mouth area: a giant, rocky hollow which someone is carving out, hacking away at with a miner's pick.

2023/06/06

June 6, 2023
A large human face in profile, both eyes and mouth wide open. The eye contains a blurry television screen; the cavernous mouth contains a stereo speaker.

2023/05/28

May 28, 2023
A figure with three legs and a face made of two masks, each mask itself half a face. It looks as though one three-legged person—or maybe one one-legged person next to a two-legged person—are standing behind two giant half-faced masks, holding them together. The eyes of both masks are empty; one seems to be a hole with light behind it, one is totally dark. This bizarre assemblage stands outside, the suggestions of grass and cloud around it.

2023/05/04

May 4, 2023
Eek! It's a large, furry creature casting an anxious glance over its shoulder, and finding that its pointed tail is actually the nose of a face with a scheming expression. The face is located where none of us would want to find another face on ourselves.

2023/04/29

April 29, 2023
An armless trenchcoat or cloak, worn by a tall figure. There are three heads emerging from the open front of the trenchcoat. The first two have leering expressions; the last is bearded and looks thoughtful, like an old man.

2023/04/28

April 28, 2023
A mask with glowing green eyes and an unsettling smile, surrounded by bits of debris and rocks. The mask is illuminated by an iridescent greenish light, the source unseen. The light is also reflecting off the rocks and debris.

2023/04/16

April 16, 2023
An eerie figure that seems to be carved from stone stands in the light of a moon that looks like the Facebook "haha" reaction. The figure has no ears, a strange smile, and wears a suit and fedora. One side of the figure's face is hidden in shadow; on the side that isn't, there's a smiley face instead of an eye.

2023/04/01

April 1, 2023
A person stands on a very tall stool, painting a giant canvas. Rather than being placed on an easel, the canvas is held by a huge, furry monster. The monster's head is behind the canvas. The image on the canvas shows a figure wearing a suit and tie, but the figures head is a simple, round smiley emoji. The placement of the canvas and figure lines up precisely with where the monster's head and shoulders would be, almost as though the canvas is a mask for the monster. Which, perhaps...is one of the purposes of art? [Murmurs of approval in the faculty lounge]

2023/03/27

March 27, 2023
A grassy hilltop, except it's a man with a huge long beard. The man's head is like a boulder sticking up from the hilltop. The man's head looks mostly shaved, except for a grassy area on the top like hair. On top of the man's head stands a small figure holding binoculars, watching a bird circle overhead.

2023/03/24

March 24, 2023
A sinister figure wearing a hat and trench coat stares suspiciously at a vast, masklike face growing out of its left side.

2023/03/22

March 22, 2023
A figure wearing a black cloak and boots. The figure's head is square and minimal, seen in profile; it's eye is a triangle with an exclamation point. A speech balloon with a hand—a "stop icon" hand—appears above its head. You know those icons that appeared on Mac dialog boxes back in the 80s and 90s? This character looks like it's assembled from those icons.

2023/03/21

March 21, 2023
A figure hauling a sack slung over its back staggers along a wasteland. Sticking out of the sack is a giant obelisk with a terrible empty-eyed face, mouth agape.

2023/03/18

March 18, 2023
A figure holds up, over its head, a giant puppet that looks like a smiley-face emoji. The puppet is huge, about twice the size of the figure. The puppet has its own smaller puppet (or, perhaps, meta-puppet?) which looks like a frowny-face emoji.

2023/03/06

March 6, 2023
A black and white sketch of the immortal Happy Mac icon: a simple line drawing of a 1980s-era all-in-one Mac, with a happy face displayed on its screen.

2023/03/05

March 5, 2023
An old-style, monochrome television—you know, the kind with knobs and a cathode ray tube—stands on furry, spindly legs. It is standing on a grassy hill at night: behind it is the suggestion of a city seen from a great height, the streets defined by lights. There's a moon partially hidden behind fog. It is, altogether, a distinctly eerie scene; one made all the more unsettling by the fact that the television screen is on and glowing, displaying a monstrous staring face.

2023/03/04

March 4, 2023
An electrical outlet, but both receptacles resemble Facebook reaction emoji; upper receptacle is angry, lower one is laughing

2023/03/03

March 3, 2023
An electrical outlet where the two receptacles look like little demon faces

2023/02/27

February 27, 2023
A lone figure stands at the mouth of a cave, which is also the mouth of a giant stone face in the side of a cliff. Behind, the sun blazes from thick clouds; the kind you see right before or after a rain. There is a faded suggestion of a tree line. The universe holds its breath, awaiting the figure's next move.

2023/02/19

February 19, 2023
A strange building that looks like a face with three eyeballs, all staring towards each other. It's half a face in profile and half a face viewed from the front. I don't know how to even describe this one.

2023/02/18

February 18, 2023
A fragment of a mask, surrounded by rocks, nails, and bits of flotsam

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