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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.

2023/07/01

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.

2023/06/11

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.

2023/05/28

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.

2023/05/25

May 25, 2023
A black, furry, slightly hunched over creature dances while juggling balls. The creature is wearing a mask that looks vaguely like a jester's face and cap, except more minimal and eerie: blank and white, with black holes for eyes and a mouth.

2023/05/19

May 19, 2023
A large person wearing a shirt, a tie, a vast overcoat, and heavy military boots stands alone. The person's head is shaved; they have an analog clock for a face. Pinned to the overcoat is a wild, ostentatious array of various medals, pins, and badges.

2023/05/06

May 6, 2023
A furry, slightly disheveled creature, wearing suspenders and a sandwich board with an icon on it that looks like a vague blend of the bitcoin symbol and a dollar sign. The creature's face is covered by a sinister smiley-face mask with perfect teeth and empty eyes. The creature is doffing a top hat with a clown horn affixed to it via a spring, and also ringing a bell, like a carnival barker. The creature is slightly hunched, trudging along a barren landscape with sparse grass. This is totally not a passive-aggressive reference to the crypto scammers who have been making a particular nuisance of themselves lately.

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.

2023/04/10

April 10, 2023
Someone wearing a very unique diving suit walks on the ocean floor. The suit has furry pant legs, a giant blue glass sphere for a faceplate, and a fedora, because one doesn't relinquish one's fashion sensibilities simply because one is at the bottom of the sea. The suit is connected to something by a black hose extending off the top of the screen. There are fish swimming near the figure.

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]

2023/03/24

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.

2023/03/20

March 20, 2023
A giant werewolf-like monster stands in two legs, raising its arms over its head. Its hands are huge and clawed. In place of a face is a smiling emoji with eyes for hearts.

2023/02/18

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

2023/02/15

February 15, 2023
A furry monster with high-tech facial gear and multiple horns (three to be precise) wears a mask that looks like Apple's "smug smile" emoji

2023/02/12

February 12, 2023
A child's face, with a four-way game pad in the forehead and two buttons, A and B, on the left cheek.

2023/02/04

February 4, 2023
Two masks: both half a face, positioned side by side to form a whole. One is smiling, one is frowning; one is gray with a red eye, one is red with a gray eye and gray teeth.

2023/02/02

February 2, 2023
Two masks stacked on top of each other, forming an eerie house. A person stands in the eye/window of the upper one, blowing bubbles.

2023/01/30

January 30, 2023
A vast, carved figure stands on a wall with a small tag next to it, as though it's in a museum. Disturbingly, the base of it is split open, and a thick tail emerges from the hole in the wall.

2023/01/11

January 11, 2023
A face that's somewhere between a robot and a skeleton

2022/08/30

August 30, 2022

2022/08/16

August 16, 2022

2022/08/15

August 15, 2022

2022/08/10

August 10, 2022

2022/08/06

August 6, 2022

2022/07/21

July 21, 2022

2022/07/17

July 17, 2022

2022/07/15

July 15, 2022

2022/07/14

July 14, 2022

2022/07/13

July 13, 2022

2022/07/09

July 9, 2022

2022/06/24

June 24, 2022
A machinelike mask. The mask appears to be made out of terra cotta.

2022/06/23

June 23, 2022
A mask with a smile and only one eye. The mask appears to be made out of terra cotta.

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