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My name is Caitlyn Grabenstein, a collage artist, and @Cult.Class is an art project where I create surreal, photorealistic digital collages. My work often features otherworldly themes, retrofuturistic surrealism, and science fiction.

Cult class collages have been featured in publications such as Vogue, Poosh, and Goop. I have also worked with clients such as Netflix, Porsche, WIRED Magazine, Adobe Creative Cloud, and more.

My art is known for its unique and stylish aesthetic. Usually, it features surreal imagery, such as flower skies, visible planets, UFOs, cryptids, retro-futuristic landscapes, and more. I also use a variety of techniques, such as digital collage and photo manipulation, to create my art.

If you are interested in learning more about @cult.class artwork, you can visit my website or follow me on Instagram.

More info: Instagram | cultclassart.com

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Shyla Bouche
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to see who or what is going to squeegee the windshield.

JM
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love this - perfectly “retro” and “futuristic” at the same time and, for me at least, evokes a sort of nostalgia (bizarrely, for something that never existed)

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    DannX68
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cute. Would hang this one on the wall.

    Mike Fitzpatrick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's cool but that would not be my dog. She's frightened of her own shadow, lol.

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    Julianne M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like an album cover

    M J
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What hails from beyond the fog ..

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one’s too scary for me - evokes Stephen King’s “The Mist.”

    Nonesuch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lift up your head, your redemption draweth nigh

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    Foffy Skrimshaw
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All Darth Vader wants us peace in the Galaxy

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All we are saying…is give peas a chance…

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    Frosty 🇺🇦
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    POV: Darth Vader taking a selfie for Instagram before destroying earth

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So weird to me. Darth Vadar as a peace-sign throwing hitch hiker with the death star in the background (that’s no moon; that’s a space station) feels like a surreal imposition of the future over a 1930’s past.

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    Mike Fitzpatrick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love the cars. That Montego (the Brown one in the front) was the car I lusted after when I was young.

    Blue Jay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love that you specified which one the Montego is. I love cars and learning about them but when I was first learning more as a teen I was often made to feel stupid because I didn't already know as much as my brothers did (yup, I'm a girl). Off to Google Montegos now!

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    Mike Kooring
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's go for a drive to see the earth

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this one! Open the doors to the parallel 1970’s universe!

    Thomas E S Thomas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someday humans will find a binary world to visit.

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    Powerful Katrinka
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We were somewhere around Alpha Centauri when the drugs began to take hold."

    Unknown
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...uppers, downers, laughers, screamers....

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    Queen Mab
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gonna love in my pink Cadillac. Aretha.

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two aliens on a date?

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    Dawn Marie
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    E. T. phone home

    MRS PrezConSioux
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "so hello from the outside/I must have called a thousand times"

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One moment in a romantic reverie, the next moment crushing your skull with my giant, alien jaws. Good luck figuring out what will set me off, human.

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    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My housekeeper just stole over $300 from me. I can't cover my rent or buy groceries. Think this fellow would mind company?

    Queen Mab
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think you're in the wrong place. Sorry.

    Mrs Forbidden Ocean
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor thing. Sorry dude, you came to the wrong planet... At least, it's extremely rare to find a decent human being these days!

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is so poignant.

    Robb Olofsson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd help, must be Pausl's relative!

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    Laura Lett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love those Hammer Head Shark's....

    SeaWolf
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that looks beautiful!

    Mike Fitzpatrick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assuming you are on the ground, above, not so much.

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    such a strange composition to be running into…

    reggieblack
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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    Laura Lett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just hanging out with my friends....

    Vic
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's spinning, wouldn't the centrifugal force throw them off the craft?

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love this idyll - especially after the last one.

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    Why?
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”

    Earl Grey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “‘I’m a sandwich. Would you like mayo and a pickle with that?”

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    Laura Lett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which way to the Emerald City?

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it, love it, love it!

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    Gorilla guy
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Megalohydrothalassophobia sets in

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoa, Nelly! Totally did not expect THAT as I scrolled down!

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    JM
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is Nessie calling the mother ship, over…

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    Gorilla guy
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know why, but this makes me very claustrophobic

    Julianne M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This gives me anxiety Lots of anxiety

    jamiemilleman
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m obsessed with this and it’s not on her website page anymore. Ideas where I can buy it?

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    …what every teenager in love is imagining happening to them…

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    Frosty 🇺🇦
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no! Not Hermione! Now the muggles will know.

    Smuggy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that the steeple on the barn was another witch and was training the other how to ride a broomstick.

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oops! fell off me broom!

    Why?
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rookie quidditch player.

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    Jasmine O
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of the film Arrival.

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    DannX68
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Y'all need to watch the movie A Ghost Story.

    reggieblack
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️here take some of these

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    Richard Low
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the tree gets a lift home but Santa doesn't? Poor , but where is Rudolph while this is happening

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    Mike Fitzpatrick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anybody else hear the sound from Pac Man looking at this?

    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course! It's okay, Adam Sandler's got this!

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    54 s
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the earth died screaming while I lay dreaming

    Mike Kooring
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pizza and a nuke. What better way to spend Saturday night.

    Queen Mab
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pizza and an atomic bomb - my two passions.

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “All the young girls love Alice, Tender, young Alice, they say…”

    Gorilla guy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't mind us, just trying to get our fellow alien back

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    Thomas E S Thomas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On some planets in the cosmos their view at night would be that fantastic, especially in a supercluster region with nearby multiple galaxies. Ours is quite nearly alone.

    Mo Taylor
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And we're running just as fast as we can... holding onto one another's hand... trying to get away, into the night...

    Nonesuch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're about to miss our flight!

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    Thomas E S Thomas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Moloch. God of ancient Sumerians. Fertility god at that.

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oops! you weren’t supposed to see me until Thursday.

    DannX68
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for the nightmares :/

    Victor Botha
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Old Morris Minor. We had a station wagon version when I was kid.

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    Richard Low
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know what is cooler the ship or the car .

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    Frosty 🇺🇦
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you are driving into outer space, you gotta have pizza

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    Gorilla guy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Independence Day meets Jurassic world

    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this one a lot although, to me, the girl is extraneous - I think it would be better without her.

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    Nonesuch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's make like a horse turd and hit the trail

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will have the last laugh, human!

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it! Save the last dance for me!

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    Thomas E S Thomas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like that photo. The men on the bottom right had no idea that neutron bombs could hurt you even from twenty miles away.

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    Nonesuch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Put down the phone and save me.

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    Robert Davis
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the Native Americans would of kicked their @sses.

    Mike Fitzpatrick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're probably right. An unseen arrow targeting you would sure mess up your day.

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    JM
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dang. I conquered all the life forms on this planet and now I meet you, not-so-parasitic human. Somebody call Alanis Morrisett!

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    Gorilla guy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always imagined a world where people's thoughts are visible

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    Mo Taylor
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Buffalo Gal Won't You Come Out Tonight?

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    For those intrigued by the vintage charm of past eras, there's something captivating about retro-futuristic landscapes and surreal imagery.

    Just as guides from the 1940s captured the art of kissing, Caitlyn Grabenstein's collages bring a whimsical touch to the modern art scene, blending the nostalgia of the past with futuristic visions.