minttoothpick

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A book: Capital by Thomas Piketty. The camera angle is dramatic due to being below the horizon or whatever the term is.
collage artwork mostly comprised of hundreds of arms placed seemingly randomly on the canvas, with abstract elements underneath peeking through providing some other pops of color in green, yellow, blue.
screenshot of my website at minttoothpick.com with hand drawn text, sky blue background, menu items like collage (coming soon), book drawings, pen drawings, my kids' art, and misc., 2020, and a still frame from a video of an under construction gif that i hand rendered in pastels.
Black cassette tape called "Flattener" by Spinning Voices, next to its case, the cover art of which is an abstract black and white graphic; for some reason a little plastic Jesus is standing on top of the cassette.
collage: six persimmons on a couple branches; a human arm dangles beneath each fruit. the background is a blue sky with clouds.
black and white pen drawing of a baby figurine covered in seed pods and a small animal spine. caption: "I found this creepy baby-in-a-coffin-looking thing by the French Broad River. Then I covered it in feather-looking seed pods. Then I found a small spine and the look was complete."
tan t-shirt w/ pink handpainted words: "team friend". also there's a drawing of a cloud w/ smiley face on the shirt pocket.
a white square surface with bright pink border on the top and right edges; the entire thing is covered in multiple layers of overlapping writing in black ink
library book shelf sign for row 7, juvenile fiction; at the bottom it says "FLA - MAN". (like "florida man". get it? is it inappropriate to explain jokes in the alt text?)
Aged type specimen sheet labeled “Plate 5,” displaying the alphabet in large black serif letters. Below it reads “A Beautiful Roman Alphabet by Goudy” and “Drawn after ‘Forum Title,’ a type letter designed by F.W. Goudy.”
photo of a notepad with sloppy black and blue ink drawing of a man's face, with a bright red laser dot shining on the left eye; in the bottom left of the photo, the black and red muzzle of an infrared thermometer is visible
Cut out paper hand with scribbly pencil drawing of mismatched eyes, spiky hands and arms, and lots of teeth in a gaping smile. One yellow background.
Vintage painted poster of a marine, pistol raised, standing in front of an American flag. The bottom half of the soldier's body is overlaid with a large hand holding a crispy fast food item with some ketchup dripping from the top. Some fragments of Arby's coupons are visible to the left.
Paper collage, some of the recognizable elements of which include sausages, a person's torso and arm, hands holding a rotary cutter, an animal eyeball, coral, neon pink shapes, an octopus, and a pile of meat and cheese.
Paper collage dominated by a chunk of grainy grey texture, an illustration of people in various styles of hat in front of a gridded rock wall, part of a person's head and shoulders viewed from the back, and white paper with gray scribbles and photocopied textures reading "let the... of the Lord our God... be upon us..."
Collage of paper cut in various abstract shapes and silhouettes; some identifiable elements include an illustration of actors on a stage, one of whom is wearing antlers, the hull of a wooden ship, a human leg with sandal, and a rectangle of paper that reads "This space intentionally left blank" in the center of the composition.
Paper collage consisting of a basket in the foreground against a jumble of elements and shapes with vegetation textures, vertical white lines on light blue, denim fabric, winter trees against a vivid blue sky, and a small rectangle with the word "SKELETON".
Abstract collage of various paper elements: scrap of paper with some black and white line drawings demonstrating various window curtain formats, such as "double-hung traverse" and "ruffle tiebacks"; blue paper with various colored pencil scribblings; the word "The"; an offwhite fabric texture; a white, vaguely celestial, fuzzy shape; and a dark reddish earthy texture.
Abstract paper collage: many dark shapes intermingle with each other, their edges often round, their textures looking like undulating rocks and folded skin, with pinkish flesh colored elements peeking through here and there; the top left quarter of the composition is dominated by a pencil drawing of a flying trapeze artist about the grasp the bar.
Abstract collage packed with overlapping cutouts: a large portrait of a blonde person’s face partially covered by bright pink marker writing and doodles; teal and gray torn shapes layered across the top and bottom; a bird in flight over trees in the upper left; a vertical block of bold yellow-and-black text reading “YOUR” along the left edge; and a small framed teal rectangle near the lower left. Additional fragments include scattered product-label text, a thin strip reading “LONG BONES,” and dark spray-like shading, with an overall palette of teal, green, black, beige, and hot pink.
Very abstract collage: a bustling hodgepodge of overlapping elements like hands, a suited man's neck and chest, geese, marker scribbles, blood splatter, myriad shapes, and partially obscured text that reads "The biggest". Colors are mostly greens, cyans, blacks, beige, some pink and white and brown.
Collage composed of slightly-yellowed magazine page folded over with the text "PEOPLE DODGE" at the top right and a black-and-white photograph of a crowd of people; two wonky hand-drawn faces on white paper peek from within and underneath the photo; all is set against a dark green painted background.
Collage containing commercial packaging from a "Deluxe Wig Cap" with a ham-and-cheese-topped cracker on top of the wig-cap-wearer's face; a paint swatch strip with three shades of gray; a silver tube with flames coming out of the end next to the word "HEAT"; a red number "5" near the bottom; all on a background of black and red typewriter gibberish scribbled over with swooping gray and red pencil marks.
Paper collage layered over a vintage printed alphabet chart. Elements include spaghetti with sauce, a cracker topped with jam, a circular photo of a woman and child holding tissues to their faces, a black-and-white portrait labeled "sheep's-eye view on film," a red corridor image, and a large green number tag reading "8978" near the bottom.
Abstract collage on paper composed of fragments with pink and green marker scribbles, a couple cartoony faces, and a photo of pizza dough drooping off a hand in the top right corner. Centered printed text reads "Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t."
Abstract mixed-media collage on paper combining cut-out photographic fragments of hands and arms; another hand holds a photo of two men in profile pressing their noses together. Background consists of layered grayscale water beads on strings, landscape textures, pale green architectural shapes, and torn paper edges. A small landscape fragment appears near the bottom, and printed text at the bottom reads "Could you string these into a necklace?"
Abstract mixed-media collage on white paper combining a grayscale background photograph of pebbles, a cut-out human silhouette in a crouching pose, a separate human forearm and hand, a vertical strip of orange patterned fabric, torn notebook paper with handwritten text, a yellow paper face drawing, and loose blue pen lines layered across the composition.
Thrift store haul: a book called "Better Homes and Gardens Country Dolls" with two semi-creepy handmade dolls on the cover, another book called "How to Talk to Your Cat! (And get it to do what you want)" with two adorable kittens wearing bells on their collars with flowers in the foreground, and a CD by Faysal Hallak titled "Lebanese Folk Nights Vol 2" with a photo of the artist wearing a blue and purple polo style shirt on the cover.
A pale, puffy animal cracker, the species of which is unidentifiable; it has four legs, a very thick upright tail, a small head with rounded ear, a dimple in the middle of its body, and four things dangling from the bottom of its midsection.
A botanical line drawing illustration of a corn plant overlaid on a gold rectangle background with riverlike shapes cut out of it.
A phone placed face-down on a Cosmopolitan magazine has a goofy, scrunched cartoon face drawn in white marker on its case, positioned so the doodled face lines up with the cover model’s body.
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