Scanner Revenge

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I spent many hours working on this project in Adobe Illustrator.  Pushing and pulling all the many layers that made up this image.  It was very challenging and rewarding at the same time.  Might be interesting to turn something like that image into a painting.  Ideas abundant not to put them on canvas.


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