Your Face from a Toilet Paper Tube

How would you like to see your face made out of a toilet paper tube?

Luca Varaschini has made an art out of doing just that. Though it may strike you as somewhat silly, which, I believe, is the very intention, it is also a rather remarkable display of vision and virtuosity.

There are 26 toilet paper tube portraits in the collection. Clearly, the artist was, so to speak, on a roll.

To get from portrait to portrait, you click on the barely discernible image of a jet plane, next to the title of the portrait. I have no idea what the jet plane symbolizes. It is apparently a design element introduced by Spazio, the virtual gallery that hosts this collection. On the other hand, considering the very idea of toilet paper tube sculptures, the irrelevance of it all is somehow fitting.

Toilet Paper Tube art is the very stuff of fun. You can't quite take it seriously, and yet you somehow have to. The skill; the creativity; the ingenuity; the playfulness; the whole virtual exhibit: Definitely silly. Oddly inspiring.