Sunday, July 26, 2009

Face Sculptures

(Above) An ordinary cardboard toilet paper roll.
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WHAT TO DO WITH LEFT OVER TOILET PAPER ROLLS? JUNIOR JACQUET of France has an answer that works for him. He recycles and reuses these cardboard rolls into a legion of odd characters with contorted faces. His process is simple: Jacquet paints—then pushes and pulls the cardboard roll, slowly revealing his next character.

Learn more about the artist at Village of Joy.

11 comments:

Maureen said...

Very clever, but I kept seeing George Bush in them.

Patricia said...

Bush Junior and Senior!

Angela Riechers said...

To avoid seeing any of the Bush family, reset preferences to Boris Karloff. These are tremendous!

Red-SSR said...

Amazing what one person can see in a toilet paper roll...Gary

John Foster said...

You all are hilarious! Reset preferences to Boris Karloff! LOVE IT!

Since these faces are from toilet paper rolls, all I see are the grimaces of constipated people!

kentuckyliz said...

some of them look like the old guys in the balcony of the Muppet Show

or Abe Vigoda

who is still not dead

Hazel O'Brien said...

They look like faeries to me.

Pattee said...

Wow I never thought there would be new ideas BUT yours is great!!!! What a great way to recycle!
Pattee

Seth said...

So clever!

Laura Bray said...

Amazing! I linked to this post today! http://katydiddys.blogspot.com/2009/09/totally-tubular.html

Denise said...

Wow! this is so great! I love it. so many different faces!