What do you do with 100,000 pin pricks of colour?

I love the ingenuity of Christian Faur. This man uses crayons to create his masterpieces….

I have an overwhelming sentimental attachment to crayons. (For some proof, check out the design of my Twitter page.) Not just the sense-memory of using crayons when I was a kid, but as an adult realizing the fundamental artistic ideas that those little sticks of wax represented to me; colour, creation, exploration, and (a particular sub-set of the general societal crayon fascination) the connection between word and colour. This, for a five year-o … Read More

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