Art in four lines or less

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Breakout

The introductory piece is called Breakout. This work merges two of my interests, classical video games and ascii art.

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      (( [___] -abg

A and G

The next is A and G. It is composed of, simply, a triangle on a sphere, which represents the two letters. Only 12 characters were used in this work.

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     \__/  -abg  

Campfire

Alright, I admit that Campfire is more than 4 lines tall. It was designed, however, with the intention of keeping it within the width limit. I felt, however, that the limit did injustice to the work, and would render it unsatisfactory.

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        /I\         \    ( )( (()(          -
       / I \         \    \/\ \\/\ -O--===o---|
      /  I  \         \    \_\_/_/            |
     /___I___\_________\   ()_()_)      |_____|-abg

Snowplow

Living in Minnesota, it is only natural for your thoughts to "drift" (groan) to snow. Snowplow thusly arrived.

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     |    '    |_/ -abg   Heading out to plow some snow....
     '-()----()' \

Nail Me Again

I was just randomly doodling at the time when Nail Me Again appeared. This work went on to appear in another form later on...

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          //////    /              / \  -abg
          \\\\\\____\______________\_/    Just another nail in the coffin.

Palm, Gum, Myku

The next three all emerged from the same contemplative state of mind. I was bitten by the poetic bug one evening, and Palm, Gum, and Myku emerged.

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     -- -   ( .-'          Oh, stylized tree in a hurricane...
    -- - -  ||-('          the winds that blow ye,          
    --- -   ||    -abg     exist only in thought.


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     (-()()  -abg     "Chewing Gum" - A self portrait.     
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       .''''           "Sitting alone, key
       (-()() -abg      dreaming, black... white, a hyphen
           )            brings/leaves me to thought."
          -                "ASCII man" - self haiku.

Glasses

I had been kicking Glasses around as an idea for a while. In a fit of creation, it jumped from one electrical impulse to another.

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               \   \ -abg
                ()^()

Hockey Clubs

The Hockey Clubs had originally meant to be hockey sticks (I played as a youth) but after I finished, I realized that they could be seen either way.

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            \\//    -abg     Hockey sticks/ Golf Clubs
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Pencil Cross-Section

Pencil Cross-Section was originally meant to be a full pencil, but the sharpened end did not look right, so I halved it. Notice the similarities to Nail Me Again above.

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  /  ///               /.\
  \__\\\_______________\./ -abg   pencil section.

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